Vadodara: Two persons were arrested with
600 pentazocine (a painkiller) injections and 25 grams of
methamphetamine (a stimulant) which they were trying to sell
to addicts here, police said today.
The two, identified as Mayur Gaekwad and Sachin
Parmar, were nabbed by a team of the police's Special
Operations Group (SOG) after it received a tip-off that they
would be coming to a local ground to carry out a transaction,
officials said.
A statement from the SOG said that Gaekwad had bought
600 injections, each having 1 ml of pentazocine, from one
Rubi Rani in Mumbai and was selling it for Rs 300 each.
It added that Parmar had procured methamphetamine from
one Pavan from Agra in Uttar Pradesh.
"Pentazocine is a scheduled drug that costs Rs 5.58
per injection but drug peddlers sell it for Rs 300 per 1 ml
injection. Each gram of methamphetamine drug, also known
as ecstasy, is sold for Rs 3,000," it said.
An FIR was registered under various sections of the
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act against the
two, as well as Pavan and Rani who are yet to be arrested,
officials said.
This is the third time this year that the police
have seized pentazocine injections from drug peddlers here.
On January 28 this year, three persons, including two
women, were arrested with 720 such injections while on March
19, two people were nabbed with 1000 injections, officials
said.
PTI
