As part of the ongoing war against drugs launched under the directions of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, Fatehgarh Sahib Police has busted an inter-state pharmaceutical drug cartel with the arrest of a Haryana resident after recovering 2.51 lakh Pharma opioids from his possession, the Punjab Police informed on Sunday.
The drug bust was done as part of the ongoing war against drugs launched under the directions of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, the police said. The Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Anti-Gangster Task Force-cum-Ropar Range Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said that the arrested accused is a resident of Haryana and was supplying drugs from there.
“The arrested accused has been identified as Ranjit Goswami, a resident of Batra Colony in Sonipat, Haryana. The Police have recovered 2,37,000 tablets of Alprazolam and 14,400 of the Pyeevon Spas capsules from his KIA car, in which he was smuggling drugs,” he added.
“Following a tip-off, Police teams from CIA Sirhind and Police Station Khamano laid a special checking at Khamano and stopped a KIA car bearing registration number HR10AJ9791, which accused Ranjit Goswami was driving,” he added.
SSP Fatehgarh Sahib Dr Ravjot Grewal said that during preliminary investigations, it has come to light that the arrested accused was supplying drugs in Punjab for the last few years.
