Tightening the noose on the drug peddlers in Punjab, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Amritsar has claimed to have nabbed the main supplier of drugs Israr Hussain, alias Raju from Chandigarh.
Raju, who hails from Haridwar, Uttarakhand was caught near ISBT, Sector-17, Chandigarh, when he was planning to hand over the consignment of drugs to a drug peddler of Jalandhar.
In a Press statement, the bureau has said 5,000 Injections (containing Buprenorphine) have been recovered from the possession of Raju. It has come to the notice of bureau that injections containing Buprenorphine are being supplied in Punjab without any valid document or invoice on a large scale.
Raju has confessed his involvement in the drug trade for long. He also has disclosed many names of drug smugglers, involved in the business in Phillaur, Jalandhar, ludhiana, Phagwara, Kapurthala, Pathankot, Moga, Patiala and Amritsar. Many of the names taken by Raju are whole sale medicine suppliers. The bureau has taken Raju to Amritsar on transit remand from Chandigarh.
About a fortnight back, NCB Amritsar had nabbed two drug peddlers — Charanjit Chopra of Kapurthala and Kuldeep Singh of Moga and seized 1924 Injections (Containing Buprenorphine, a salt of OPIUM) from their possession. The arrest of Raju is the third success of NCB within a fortnight.
Sachin Gularya, Superintendent, NCB Amritsar, said the bureau was trying to ascertain the manufacturing unit of the Injections containing Buprenorphine. The bureau team visited Baddi in Himachal Pradesh for spot verification of the unit, mentioned on the ampoules strips but could not find it there.