Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Drugs worth Rs 10 lakh seized in Dimapur

DIMAPUR, Oct 18 – In a major haul, Dimapur East police seized a huge consignment of 14,11,000 tablets of controlled drugs worth Rs 10 lakh from a cosmetic shop located on the first floor of Hazi Park shopping complex here.

The banned drugs were reportedly transported from Delhi to Dimapur through the Railway Mail Service and shifted to the godown by the accused, one Mahadev Prasad, owner of the shop.

Police told reporters today that he received specific information of the consignment and had sent some plain clothes police personnel along with two officers to locate the godown.

On raiding the place, police found the controlled drugs kept hidden in a secret compartment built on the ceiling of the shop. The drugs were packed in 17 cartons.

The seized drugs included 10,08,000 tablets of Redikuf (Pseudeophedrine Hydcrochloride & Bromhexine Hydrochloride) 99,000 tablets of Sucet (Cetrizine Dihydrochloride & Pseudeophedrine HCI) and Cetcof (Cetirizine Hydrochloride & Pseudeophedrine HCI tablets).

These illegal consignments reportedly go to Manipur and Myanmar where the drugs are in high demand. Certain compositions of these drugs are learnt to be used for making some other illegal drugs like heroin, police said quoting sources.

The seized drugs are worth around Rs 10 lakh in Delhi with the price per strip of ten tablets ranging from Rs 3-10.

According to medical experts, the seized drugs have very high dosage of 40 mg which can sedate a normal person for at least 3 days.

The accused has been chargesheeted under the Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and investigation is on to ascertain the source and destination of these drugs, police said.

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