INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KATHMANDU, SEPTEMBER 8
Police have arrested three persons from Sallagahri, Bhaktapur, for illegally transporting a huge cache of
prescription drugs.
The arrestees have been identified as, Bishnu Pradhan, 36 and Dambar Bahadur Pradhan, 37 of Baarhabise and Shankar
Khadka,32 of Bhotekoshi, in Sindhupalchowk district.
Police confiscated around 13,000 ampoules and tablets of prescription drugs from
them.
Pradhan duo, was arrested from a truck, that was used to transport the drugs
The main person of the scam, Khadka, was arrested from Narayanthan in Kathmandu.
The arrested people were transporting the drugs in the
truck carrying packets of Horlicks
Police said the drug traffickers had used the vehicle carrying food items as those vehicles could ply the road during lockdowns and
prohibitory orders imposed in many districts.
Metropolitan Police Crime Division, acting upon a tip-off, had raided the truck at a police
Senior Superintendent of Police Deepak Kumar Thapa at MPCD said the accused perpetrators had hidden the illegal drug at an artificially made
space under the drivers seat.
The seized prescription drugs include: promethazine , diazepam, buprenorphine and noophin and 3,000 tablets of
nitraven.
Organised trade of prescription drugs is on the rise despite police crackdown, as per police.
Teenagers account for the largest
section of end users of pharmaceutical drugs as they are more accessible and affordable than the hard drugs.
There has been an alarming rise
in drug smuggling in the country.
According to Nepal Police, growing abuse of psychoactive substances and injectable drugs has emerged as a
big problem in the country in the recent years.
Feature image: File
A version of this article appears in e-paper on September 9, 2020, of
The Himalayan Times.
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