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The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has arrested a mill proprietor successful Uttarakhand’s Dehradun for allegedly allowing usage of the installation for illicit manufacturing of Captagon tablets by the Syrian nationalist held earlier successful the case, according to bureau sources.
The accused has been identified arsenic Sanjay Kumar.
After the NCB arrested Syrian nationalist Alabras Ahmad from his rented accommodation successful Delhi’s Neb Sarai and seized implicit 227 kg of Captagon successful tablet and pulverization forms, helium was taken into custody.
During interrogation, helium purportedly disclosed that the tablets seized from his Neb Sarai premises had been manufactured illegally astatine Green Herbal, Dehradun, successful November 2025 by him, on with different Syrian accomplice.
The mill proprietor allegedly charged astir Rs.50,000 per time for allowing usage of the facility.
Sophisticated machinery
Based connected the inputs, the bureau raided the mill connected Saturday (May 17, 2026) nighttime and recovered blase machinery, including tablet-making, granulation, capsule-filling, coating, sealing, and blister packaging machines, installed connected the premises.
It is alleged that the mill proprietor was antecedently progressive successful 2 abstracted drug-related cases of the Dehradun constabulary and the NCB Delhi zonal portion related to the proviso of tramadol and different NRx (prescription-only) tablets.
Earlier, portion astir 31.5 kg of Captagon was recovered astatine the Syrian national’s residence successful tablet signifier connected May 11, implicit 196 kg of Captagon pulverization was seized from a instrumentality successful the Container Facilitation Station (CFS) astatine Gujarat’s Mundra connected May 14.
According to the NCB, the instrumentality had been imported from Syria, with sheep wool arsenic the declared consignment. Initial findings indicated that it was to beryllium sent to West Asia, peculiarly Saudi Arabia and the neighbouring West Asian countries.
“Preliminary probe revealed that the Syrian nationalist had entered India connected a tourer visa connected November 15, 2024, but his visa expired connected January 12, 2025. He was illegally overstaying successful India,” said the NCB.
