Pharmacist, lab owner among 4 arrested with banned tablets

Times News Network
Ludhiana: In two separate cases, the police arrested four persons after 39,000 tablets of Tramadol were recovered from them in Ludhiana on Thursday.
In the first case, Daresi police arrested Kuldeep Kumar Sharma, 30, and Satwant Singh, 40, of Hargobindpura. Kuldeep is the owner of a medical laboratory and Satwant is a pharmacist. On a tip-off, their two-wheeler was intercepted near Basti Jodhewal Chowk. During checking, 25,000 tablets of Tramadol were recovered from them.
ASI Rajinder Singh said, “These tablets cannot be sold without a doctor’s prescription. Besides, chemists have to keep a record of sale and purchase of the drug, but the accused failed to produce any. It is being investigated how and from where the accused got the tablets in such a huge quantity.”
In another case, Shimlapuri police arrested an electrician, Rajinder Singh, and a taxi driver, Jagdish Sharma, 32, after 14,000 Tramadol tablets were found on them near Barota Road.
Shimlapuri police station SHO inspector Amandeep Singh Brar said, “During questioning, Rajinder of Preet Nagar, Shimlapuri, and Jagdish of New Shimlapuri told that they procured the tablets from a Ludhianvi. The two are being questioned to break the supply chain.”
An FIR has been registered in both the cases.