*Two Jail in mates among twelve held with 15.08l Pharma opioids
** Police have also arrested manufacturer, says CP Amritsar Gurpreet Singh Bhullar
Amritsar : Police have busted an interstate network of illegal opioid manufacturing and supply units running from pharma factories based in Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat, said Commissioner of Police (CP) Amritsar Gurpreet Singh Bhullar here on Sunday.
The development came after the one-month-long meticulous investigations of backward and forward linkages carried out by the Amritsar City Police into the arrest of a local drug peddler identified as Prince Kumar of Amritsar, who was arrested after recovery of 14500 tramadol tablets,said police.
In a offical statement , CP Amritsar Gurpreet Singh Bhullar divulged that, during questioning, the accused had revealed that he was supplying intoxicant tablets on the directions of Major Singh, who contacted him using mobile phone from Goindwal Sahib Jail. The police have also recovered mobile phone from the possession of Major singh inside jail. Major Singh was brought on production warrant. Further upon their disclosure Baljinder singh, Akash singh, Surjit Singh, Gurpreet singh, all residents of patti, Tarn Taran, Mohar Singh of Harike were also arrested.
Gurpreet Singh and Major Singh disclosed that they got Pharma drug supplies from Sachin Kumar of Kosi Kalan distt Mathura. Sachin Kumar owned Elichem Pharm based in Distt Hapur, UP.
A team of CIA-1 under the supervision of DCP Investigation Harpreet Singh Mandher and ADCP CITY-3 Abhimanyu Rana was sent to UP for the arrest of Sachin Kumar. After the arrest of Sachin Kumar it came to light that the latter in connivance with Yogesh Kumar Rinku of Kosi Kalan who was inside Mansa Jail prepared fake documents of Elichem Pharma and were supplying intoxicant tablets to Punjab. The Police also recovered mobile phone from Yogesh Kumar inside Mansa jail and he was brought on production warrant.
Yogesh Kumar and Sachin revealed that they were getting supply of Pharma Opioids from Gloss Pharmaceuticals based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Sachin Kumar met manufacturers Manish and Rekha in Delhi. They hatched a plan to illegally send the Pharma Opioids to Punjab via Hapur, Uttar Pradesh. They forged fake documents of wholesale Unit in name of Elichem Pharma. Manufacturers in connivance with Yogesh Kumar and Sachin sent Pharma Opioids to Hapur. From Hapur consignments were then sent to Akash in Agra who further shipped the same to Amritsar.
A police team of CIA-1 Amritsar in joint operation with ATS Gujarat raided the Gloss pharmaceutical in Ahmedabad, Gujarat and recovered 14,72,220 intoxicant tablets/capsules. Both the manufacturers were also arrested.
Police have also arrested Akash from Agra and recovered 18000 intoxicant tablets from his possession.
So far, Police teams have arrested twelve persons in this case.
A case FIR No. 140 dated 04.12.23 had already been registered under section 22C of the NDPS Act at Police Station D Div in Amritsar City.
