Gujarat: Banned anxiety drug worth Rs 107 cr seized as ATS busts illegal factory

Alprazolam, which falls nether the benzodiazepines people of drugs, is simply a tranquillizing cause utilized successful the attraction of anxiousness disorders.

Manufacturing Alprazolam is restricted successful India and is an offence nether the Narcotics, Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.

Five men, identified arsenic Ranjeet Dabhi, Vijay Makwana, Hemant Patel, Lalji Makwana and Jaydeep Makwana, were progressive successful the manufacturing. They were selling it to 1 Ajay Jain, said a connection from the Gujarat ATS.

An magnitude of Rs 30 lakh paid by Ajay to Ranjeet has besides been recovered by the ATS.

Ajay, who had fixed them a declaration to manufacture Alprazolam is an aged manus successful the amerciable pharmaceuticals concern and has earlier been booked by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arsenic good arsenic the Central Bureau of Narcotics (CBN). He had been sentenced to 16 years successful situation earlier for manufacturing Alprazolam.

All the accused person been booked nether the NDPS Act and placed nether arrest. Further probe is underway.

Ranjeet runs his ain trading company, Satyam Traders. Vijay and Hemant, who clasp degrees successful chemic engineering, are employed astatine a institution named Krishank Pharma successful Khambhat, and Lalji and Jaydeep are their colleagues.