In Biggest Interstate Drug Bust, Punjab Cops Seize Over 7 Lakh Tablets
NDTV
The police have arrested the main supplier of the drugs, identified as Ashish Vishkarma, a resident of Khalasi Line near ITC in the district.
Punjab Police late on Friday evening busted an inter-state pharmaceutical drug cartel and seized over 7 lakh capsules, tablets, injections and other opioids from an illegal storage godown in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur district.
The police have arrested the main supplier of the drugs, identified as Ashish Vishkarma, a resident of Khalasi Line near ITC in the district.
According to the police, Vishkarma had been supplying illegal drugs in several districts in Punjab, including Ludhiana, Patiala, Fatehgarh Sahib, SAS Nagar, SBS Nagar and Rupnagar, for the last five years.
During the raid, the police seized 4.98 lakh tablets of Lomotil, 97,200 tablets of Alprazolam, 75,840 of Proxyvon capsules, 21,600 vials of Avil, 16,725 injections of Buprenorphine and 550 tablets of Tramadol.
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