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A 28-year-old pharmacist and his unit were arrested by Arakkonam Town constabulary for selling narcotic tablets (Tapentadol) successful Ranipet district.
Police said the arrested persons were identified arsenic siblings G. Somnath, 28, who runs a pharmacy successful Mumbai, and his unit S. Ram, 41. They were reportedly selling the banned tablets online to agents successful the district.
Initial enquiry revealed that the arrested suspects person told investigators that they placed orders for the tablets from the duo. Subsequently, the banned tablets were sent done courier to them aft they completed the online payment.
Police said that based connected orders of Ranipet SP Ayman Jamal, a peculiar squad was formed to hint cardinal suppliers successful the trade. After analysing the mobile phones of arrested suspects, slope transactions and different documents, constabulary traced the aesculapian store successful Mumbai. With the enactment of section police, the squad secured support from a section tribunal to hunt the pharmacy and its warehouse.
During the searches, constabulary said they recovered documents related to the merchantability of tablets to agents successful the district. The duo was brought to Arakkonam and produced earlier a section court. They were lodged astatine Central Prison successful Vellore. A probe is underway.
