Hyderabad: The Narcotics Management Bureau (NCB), on Friday, January 8, seized 180 tablets of psychotropic drug, Lobazam-10 (Clobazam), weighing 25.5 grams after intercepting a courier parcel on the Hyderabad workplace of DHL Categorical.
Two folks have been arrested. Their names haven’t been revealed.
These tablets have been being illegally exported to america, acknowledged a launch.
Investigations reveal that the sender of the parcel is a resident of Nizamabad district and likewise the managing director of a outstanding medical retailer there.
The NCB, in coordination with the Drug Management Administration (DCA), performed a joint raid on the medical retailer and seized 598 tablets of varied psychotropic medicine. The managing director failed to supply obligatory prescription registers, gross sales data, and inventory particulars.
The second accused works in a reputed courier firm. He fabricated paperwork, together with pretend payments and cast medical prescriptions, to facilitate the unlawful trafficking and export of psychotropic medicines to the US, the discharge mentioned.
Each accused have been booked beneath related provisions of the Narcotic Medicine and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
Describing their modus operandi, the discharge mentioned that the managing director of the medical retailer illegally procured, saved and even bought the psychotropic medicines with out sustaining any statutory data. The second accused helped create fraudulent paperwork to facilitate the export to overseas international locations.
Additional investigation is underway.
The NCB urges the general public to share data on drug trafficking by calling the MANAS Nationwide Narcotics Helpline (toll-free 1933), assuring full confidentiality to callers.
