Chandigarh, December 28: The state’s Food and Drug Administration today confiscated a large amount of habit-forming drugs being sold illegally and collected samples of the medicines for quality check.
The officials seized drug alprazolam worth Rs 10 lakh and propranolol worth Rs 3.9 lakh from chemist Maruti Pharma in Muktsar. The chemist could not produce any bill of the stored medicine.
Another chemist Rinku Pharma was raided from whom cardilax-Alprazolam and propranolol tablets worth Rs 1 lakh were seized.
Besides, samples for quality check were taken from various districts, including Bathinda, Fazilka, Ludhiana and SBS Nagar. The samples of these medicines will be sent to the government laboratory for quality check.
The habit-forming drugs such as buprenorphine and pain reliever tramadol have been making way illegally into Punjab from neighbouring states through small courier companies, AC buses and trains. The state has also initiated interstate coordination with neighbouring states to check the menace.
Source Tribune India
