Pramesh S Jain
The Tilak Park New extension police on thursday busted a drug racket and arrested a gang of seven including a medical representative for peddling Tidel tablets as substitute drugs for the addicts in and around the town.
The accused have been identified as Bhanuprakash,a salesman at a medical store and prime accused and his associate Raghavendra who worked as medical Representative for a pharma company.
According to the police,the racket started last year when Bhanuprakash used to get lot of demanded for the “tidel”tablets over the counter .
Even though the drug are block listed Bhanuprakash roped in Raghavendra and sourced the drugs for a extra money ilegally.
As the demand for the tablets started growing Raghavendra started sourcing the drugs illegally and sold it to Bhanu Prakash for a price of Rs.800 per strip of tablets .
The duo later roped in their associate Abhishek and got him a new phone to manage the clients.
Abhishek used his contacts identified as Syed Lukhman, a cab driver,Syed Saif,a wall painter,Aftab,a fabricator and Gururaj,a marketing executive in a private firm,who started selling single tablets for a price of Rs.100 to Rs. 200 to the college students and private firm employees .
The accused would sell the tablets in a powder form or dilute it to make it liquid form to inject.
The racket came to light when alert police found lots of empty tablet strips,syringes and cigarettes filters near the school and colleges,parks and isolated places last year.
Suspecting something fishy,Superintendent of Police , Ashok KV, formed a special team who analysed hundreds of CCTV footages before zeroing in on the accused.
The police based on the credible information arrested the accused and recovered 300 tablets,syringes and mobile phones from the accused .
The efforts are on to track down more people and to ascertain the source of the drugs which was supplied to the accused in large scale despite restrictions.
