Two arrested with huge quantity of banned drugs

While many youths hooked to drugs were losing lives in the state, peddlers continue to supply banned drugs and injections to youngsters. Cracking a whip against the smugglers, the police today arrested two suspects and a huge number of banned drugs and injections were recovered from them, which they were supposed to sell to the youths directly or through agents.

Kuldeep Singh, a resident of Deloana village in Mansa and at present residing in Jassian, here, and Deepak Sharma, a resident of Ashok Nagar, Ludhiana, were nabbed by the PAU police when the duo were going on a scooter (bearing registration no PB10 JJ 3767) with a large number of banned drugs and injections.

The drugs that were seized from the suspects include 7,200 capsules of Aletaminophen Tramadol HCL and Dicyclomine HCL, 2,000 Tradamol prolonged release capsules, 900 Pentazonic Lactate and Penta 900 injections, 6,600 tablets of Alprazolam and Alpcore, 750 injections of Tramadol hydrochloride injection and Brutram.

The PAU police have registered a case under Sections 22, 61and 85 of the NDPS against the duo. While there has been no case registered against Deepak Sharma in the past, a case was registered against Kuldeep at Rajpura, Patiala, for smuggling drugs.

Dr GS Grewal, a physician, said the seized drugs were habit-forming medicines, which could not be sold without prescription and chemists give the same only to buyers after taking their identity proof. Tramadol was basically a derivative of opium which was given to patients having extreme pain. These come under the category of banned drugs, which could not be taken without doctor’s consultation.

“These are highly dangerous habit-forming drugs,” Dr Grewal added.