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.
Punjab Police, on the direction of Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav, had recently launched a war on drugs in the state.
Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Ropar Range Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said the probe into the July 14 seizure of a similar drug haul led to the raid on the storage godown in Saharanpur.