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    Over 10 lakh tablets of habit forming painkiller Tramadol seized, Chemist held

    Farhat NasimWritten by Farhat Nasim Published On 2019-07-18T12:07:03+05:30  |  Updated On 18 July 2019 12:07 PM IST
    Over 10 lakh tablets of habit forming painkiller Tramadol seized, Chemist held

    Mohali: In a major crackdown, the Punjab Police recently busted an illegal racket running from a chemist shop and seized more than 10 lakh Tramadol Tablets. Besides recovering the habit-forming pharmaceutical drug, the police arrested the master-mind behind the scam.


    Tramadol is used to help relieve moderate to moderately severe pain and is similar to opioid (narcotic) analgesics. It works in the brain to change how one's body feels and responds to pain.




    According to a recent report by ANI, the smugglers were nabbed by Bathinda Police operating Pan Punjab in which the alleged leadman Pardeep Goyal was running an illegal racket out of his chemist shop under the name Platinum Health Care, Pindi Road, Ludhiana. Goyal has been held along with a drug peddler Sunil Kumar.




    Later, cops tracked one Sonu, who had connections with Pradeep and recovered 9 lakh tablets from his godown and 1, 56,000 tablets from his car.





    Also Read: Licenses of over 50 chemist shops scrapped for Running without pharmacist




    In 2007, Goyal had a wholesale drug license named as AP Medical Store at Takkar Complex, Pindi Gali, Ludhiana. In 2011, in a raid conducted by a drug inspector, his license was suspended for 21 days.





    He then changed the name of the chemist shop from AP to Jai Maa on the same license and continued his business. In 2018, 7 lakh banned illegal tablets, reportedly Tramadol tablets were seized from his premises and his license was cancelled.




    However, Goyal got around the law and got new firm viz Platinum Health Care licensed in the name of his brother in law Sandeep Gard resident of Solan.



    Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Special Task Force (STF), Gurpreet Deo while addressing a recent press conference here said that Bhatinda Police carried out the operation and nabbed one Pradeep Goyal who has allegedly supplied around 70 lakh Tramadol
    tablets in the last 10 months.


    Pointing out the effect of Pharmaceutical drugs, Deo told ANI, "Pharmaceutical drugs are synthetic drugs, also known as habit-forming drugs. Youngsters across Punjab are consuming these drugs on a large scale and Punjab police is running an intrinsic operation to fight a battle against drug supply and consumption in the state."


    "Main accused, Pradeep Goyal, was running a chemist shop in Bhatinda. He was doing so by using his brother-in-law's drug license. He has supplied around 70 lakh Tramadol tablets in the last 10 months. We have found that he has links in Delhi and Zirakpur. We have requested the Food Safety and Drug Administration Department to cancel Pradeep's drug license," she added.


    Food Safety and Drugs Administration Department has raided 117 Chemist stores in the state in the last 5 months, informed a police official.


    Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh is trying to fight against the drug menace in the state, On July 12, The Chief Ministers of Punjab and Haryana met in Chandigarh on Friday to discuss greater coordination in the battle against drugs, and agreed to hold an inter-state meeting of all the northern states in this regard on July 25, reports ANI.

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    Source : with inputs

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    Farhat Nasim
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      Farhat Nasim joined Medical Dialogue an Editor for the Business Section in 2017. She Covers all the updates in the Pharmaceutical field, Policy, Insurance, Business Healthcare, Medical News, Health News, Pharma News, Healthcare and Investment. She is a graduate of St.Xavier’s College Ranchi. She can be contacted at editorial@medicaldialogues.in Contact no. 011-43720751 To know about our editorial team click here

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