Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Sep 28: Panambur police raided P K S Health Cure medical shop located near Sharada Vidyalaya in the city based on reliable information about sale of intoxicating tablets and syrups without the prescription from authorized doctors, and seized tablets and syrups worth about Rs 30,000. The raid was conducted on Wednesday September 27 after the police came to know that certain tablets and syrups which can only be dispensed on the prescription of doctors were being sold at the said medical shop at inflated prices.

The Panambur police had arrested Muhammed Azhar (23) from Bajilkeri, Bunder here on September 25 after finding him consuming ganja near Tannirbavi. During verification, they found Nitravet - 10 tablets and Tossex syrup in his pocket. These medicines can be sold only against prescriptions.

During the questioning, Azhar reportedly told the police that medicines are being sold in a medical shop in the city without prescriptions at higher prices. A police constable of Panambur station in plain clothes was sent to the said shop seeking medicines. When the shopkeepers were about to deliver the medicines, the police raided the shop, and seized about 20 strips of Nitravet-10 tablets, and about 30 bottles of Tossex and Chloropheniramine manlet syrups. The case stands transferred to the assistant drugs controller in the city for further action.

Because of strict action by the police, availability of ganja, opium etc has become scarce, it is said. Therefore, it is believed that the people who depend on intoxicants are shifting their preference to tablets and syrups available in medical shops to get intoxicated. The police have reminded medical shops that medicines that need to be sold only against prescription from relevant doctors should not be sold without the prescriptions and that strict action would be taken if violations are detected.