Three held for possessing pain-relief tablets

Three persons including a juvenile were apprehended by the Ice House constabulary for illegally procuring pain-relief tablets from Mumbai and stocking them for sale. A full of 4,200 pain-relief tablets were seized.

Based connected a tip-off, the constabulary conducted surveillance adjacent the cremation crushed astatine Krishnampet connected Friday morning. Three persons, whom constabulary recovered to beryllium suspicious were questioned, during which it was recovered that they had concealed pain-relief tablets meant for sale.

The accused — Munir Basha, 27, of Triplicane, and Syed Basheer, 20, of Triplicane, were arrested for illegally possessing the tablets. Police besides questioned a 17-year-old juvenile successful transportation with the case. From them, 4,000 Tapentadol tablets and 200 nitrazepam tablets, totalling 4,200 pain-relief tablets, were seized.

During investigation, it was revealed that the accused had procured the pain-relief tablets from Mumbai and were stocking them for sale. After interrogation, the 2 arrested accused were produced earlier a tribunal portion the juvenile was produced earlier the Juvenile Justice Board, said police.