Man held for running chemist shop illegally

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, October 3

Following a tip-off, the Amritsar rural police arrested Mandeep Singh of Bhangali Kalan village for allegedly selling intoxicants illegally.

His ‘chemist’ shop was raided by Drug Control Officer Harpreet Kaur along with her team. During the raid, drug officials asked for the licence for selling the medicine, but he could not produce it. There was no pharmacist in the shop.

While searching, they confiscated 150 tablets of banned drug tramadol, which is misused by drug addicts. Immediately, the police were informed and they arrested the accused and registered an FIR under the NDPS Act and Drugs and Cosmetics Act against him.

The police said further investigations were on to ascertain as to who used to provide him the intoxicants and other medicines even as he did not have any authority for the same.

Meanwhile, the rural police also arrested Prabhjit Singh of Chak Kamal Khan village with 500 sedative pills. The Kathunangal and Beas police arrested Karamjit Singh, alias Kaka, of Ram Divali Hindua village and Major Singh of Cheema Bath village for allegedly possessing 100 and 190 intoxicant tablets, respectively.