Police seize medicinal drugs worth ₹1cr from illegal manufacturing unit in Bawana; 3 held

The Delhi Police have dismantled a narcotics gang involved in illegally manufacturing and distributing medicinal drugs, arresting three men and seizing Alprazolam tablets and codeine phosphate syrup worth ₹1 crore from a factory in northwest Delhi's Bawana Industrial Area, officials said on Friday.

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Investigators familiar with the case said that the three accused — Samaludden Sadik (28), Mohd Gulzar (34), and Salman Iqbal — were illegally producing habit-forming drugs like Alprazolam, codeine phosphate, Tramadol, and triprolidine hydrochloride (antihistamine), falsely labelling them as genuine pharmaceuticals.

The factory, the officer cited above said, had been active for six months. Around 180,000 alprazolam tablets, 90,000 bottles of codeine phosphate and multiple bottles of chemicals used to make the syrup were recovered from the illegal unit during the rain on Wednesday.

Police said the drugs recovered were mainly sold as anti-anxiety drugs, cheap sedatives and antihistamines that were not readily available in the market.