Punjab Police Crack Down On Pharma Drug Network Linking Amritsar To Haridwar; 6 Arrested

Chandigarh: Punjab police on Thursday claimed to have unearthed a Tramadol supply chain originating from a small recovery of 35 tablets in Amritsar recently, leading up to a manufacturing unit in Haridwar in Uttarakhand.

Police said that investigating the said case backward and forward linkages, the police escalated the recovery to a staggering 74,465 Tramadol tablets, 50 Alprazolam tablets, and 325 kg of Tramadol raw material.

Director General of Police (DGP), Punjab, Gaurav Yadav said the six persons arrested have been identified as Hari Kishore, plant manager of Lucent Biotech Limited, Roorkee, and Bikram, owner-cum-partner of Recall Lifesciences, Roorkee and other individual Manish Kumar Arora, Pooran Jatav, and Kulwinder Singh alias Kinda, a medical store owner from Kathunangal.

The DGP said that the grave concern of seized ‘TRAKEMi-100’ Tramadol strips bearing “Government Supply Only – Not for Sale,” indicating illegal diversion of medical stock.

Key pharma units found violating norms have been sealed and records are being scrutinised, he said, while adding that further investigation is in progress.

Commissioner of Police (CP), Amritsar, Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said that a joint team of Amritsar police and drug inspectors raided pharma units in Roorkee, Haridwar, seizing 4,130 unlabelled Tramadol tablets and 325 kg of unregistered raw material. This is in addition to the earlier recovery of 70,335 tablets and Rs 7.69 lakh drug money, he said.