Motihari/Sikarhana : A big syndicate of illegal business of drugs has been exposed in Panch Pakhadi of Dhaka subdivision. Its net has spread to Nagaland, Nepal and Bhutan.
The District Drug Department raided Gupta Medical and Krishna Medical located in Panch Pakhadi on Saturday. Drug Inspector Dayanand Prasad said that drugs worth lakhs including codeine, diazepam, alprazolam, clonazepam, ketamine have been recovered in the raid.
On Friday evening, the police caught a woman and a man with drugs near the Dhaka bus stand.
On inquiry, both of them told about the supply from Gupta and Krishna Medical of Panchpakhadi, then the police informed about it to the District Drug Department.
The drug department team raided both the shops. Both the shops belong to brothers Krishna Bihari Prasad and Kunj Bihari.
According to the Drug Inspector, many objectionable materials have been recovered in the raid. Pornographic videos have also been found in the mobile.
Told that the matter would be further probed from the angle of prostitution racket. The team also searched the shopkeeper’s house. Medicines worth lakhs have been seized without license even at home.
Drug Inspector Ravindra Mohan, Dhaka Inspector Mukesh Chandra Kumar, Panchpakhadi OP in-charge Anjan Kumar and a large number of police forces are included in the raid team.
According to the raiding team, the members of the syndicate used to remove the drug wrapper to dodge the police. Due to which the transportation of these medicines became easy.
Medicines were supplied to the neighboring country Nepal as well as to Nagaland and Bhutan. The man and woman caught near the Dhaka bus stand are residents of Assam’s region bordering Bhutan.
