New Delhi. The special staff team of North Eastern District Police has recovered sleeping pills worth Rs 28 lakh. It is being told that these Alprazole tablets were used illegally for intoxication. An inter-state gang doing illegal business has been exposed with the recovery of approximately 7.5 lakh bullets.
Delhi Police has revealed that they used to supply the sedative Alprazole illegally for intoxication without doctor’s advice. Police have arrested accused suppliers Rajeev Kumar, Pramod Kumar, Prem Chand, Jagdeep and Rahul Pal from Delhi, Jewar and Bulandshahr. Apart from 7.33 lakh bullets, two cars used in the crime have been recovered from the accused. Rajeev Kumar, one of the accused, is an area sales manager in a renowned pharma company. At present the police is interrogating the accused.
DCP Dr. Joy Tirkey said that the team of special staff had received information that some people were illegally smuggling sleeping and intoxicating pills, Alprazolam tablets. Inspector Rahul Adhikari’s team started gathering information about the gang. SI Sukhbir, Sushil Rawat received information about the arrival of the accused near MCD Toll Pushta Road, Sonia Vihar. Police set a trap on the spot and stopped two youths riding a Baleno car for investigation.
When the police searched the car, they found 2.40 lakh pills. Police have arrested car riders Rahul and Jagdeep. Rahul is a medicine seller, while Jagdeep does business with him. After interrogating both of them, the police arrested Prem Chand and Pramod from Jewar and recovered 4.93 lakh pills from them. Later, Rajiv Kumar, the main accused of the drug gang, was arrested from Bulandshahr. The total number of pills recovered from the accused was 88 kg.
This medicine is available after seeing the doctor’s prescription…
During investigation it was found that these medicines are not available without doctor’s prescription. The accused took advantage of this and sold them to drug dealers at exorbitant prices. Those who buy medicines also pay a heavy price for it. The police is interrogating the arrested accused and trying to trace the remaining members of the gang. Among the arrested accused, Pramod Kumar has worked as MR.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: April 26, 2024, 20:30 IST