Delhi: Banned drugs worth Rs 1 crore seized, four held as narcotics network busted

Four properties valued astatine astir Rs 4 crore and linked to the accused person been identified and are nether probe to hint the travel of the syndicate’s illicit funds.

According to police, the seized narcotics person been traced backmost to suppliers successful Uttar Pradesh with the organisation web extending to Jammu & Kashmir and different regions. “Some of the injections seized successful the cognition were sourced from Haryana, indicating a analyzable interstate operation,” they said.

The archetypal apprehension was connected October 27 aft a squad of ANTF arrested Rout, a trafficker from Haryana’s Faridabad adjacent Batra Hospital connected the Mehrauli-Badarpur Road successful Delhi, with 6.7 kg Tramadol tablets, a commercialized quantity nether the NDPS Act, constabulary said. “Rout from Bihar utilized to enactment astatine assorted chemist shops implicit the past 10 years and had built contacts with wholesale distributors of medicines,” said DCP Singh, adding that helium had been distributing ample quantities of antithetic amerciable medicines among different narcotics lately.

Rout’s apprehension led the constabulary to his superior supplier Arvind Singh, who had been operating arsenic a licensed pharmaceutical distributor nether the sanction of Shiva Pharma successful the Okhla Industrial Area for the past 5 years. He was arrested connected October 28. “He admitted to sourcing the contraband from aggregate suppliers and selling it successful the achromatic market,” the DCP stated.

Further probe led to Parshuram, different buyer, who past further supplied the drugs to assorted amerciable dealers. The squad seized 1,935 Tramadol tablets (1,147 grams), 615 Alprazolam tablets (93 grams), and 62 Pentazocine ampules (62 ml) from his residence successful Ekta Vihar. He was arrested connected November 6.

Additionally, Sushant Garg, a BPharma postgraduate and proprietor of a pharmacy successful Lajpat Nagar, was arrested connected November 7 for distributing banned Codeine syrup and Tramadol to consumers successful Jammu and Kashmir and Afghanistan.

“Garg was a purchaser of the accused Chandan Kumar Rout. He admitted to repackaging the syrup and selling it successful bulk done a transportation service,” the serviceman said.