Three Nabbed With Massive Cache Of Drugs

Over 7 lakh tablets, 1,400 injections and other drugs seized

- Puneet Sharma

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has unearthed an inter-state racket of psychotropic medicine traffickers with the seizure of over 7 lakh tablets and more than 1,400 vials of injection and bottles of cough syrup, officials said on Sunday.

“Three people have been arrested as part of an operation that began early this month and spanned across Agra in Uttar Pradesh, Ludhiana in Punjab and in the national capital,” NCB Delhi zonal director K P S Malhotra said.

“A total of 7,24,840 tablets and capsules, 1,400 injections and 80 CBCS (codeine-based cough syrup) bottles have been seized.

“These medicines are suspected to have been diverted from lawful channels into the trafficking network,” he said.