3 med shop owners detained for selling addictive cough syrup
TIMES NEWS NETWORK 24.03.2018
Chennai: Police detained three medical shop owners in Chintadripet for allegedly selling a particular brand of cough syrup without doctors’ prescription in large numbers.
Police got a tip off from from a habitual offender that he was addicted to a particular cough syrup and was taking it before committing a crime. Police said the offenders prefer to take ganja while committing a crime, this syrup seemed to help them tostayfocucssed.
Policesaidthey intake100ml of the particular brand and commit offences repeatedly on thestreetwithoutfear. This policesaidhelpedthem focuson the crime and go on a spree commiting offences. Based on this, policechecked at leasttwo medical shops located on Arunachala Naicken street in Chintadripet and found large stock of particular brand of syrup in the two medical shops. The trio Sahul Hameed, 62, Ibrahim, 42 and Velmurugan, 48 had madeentry for atleast 25 syrups being sold on a singleday.
When police checked whethr they had doctors’s prescription, they replied in negative as they give off without prescription becauseitwas a cough syrup. The owners were detainedfor questioning.
Chintaripet police sent a report to the TamiNadu food safety and drug administration department to take further action as they are authorised to book them.
Interrogations revealedthat theoffenders consume 100 ml of the syrup which is charged Rs 95 per bottle. Policehave alsoseized 109 bottlesfrom them.
“A drug insepector will visit the shop for further inquiries and initiate necessary action. They will have furnish the necessary detailsof the medicines sold,” said an investigating officer.
A case is likely to registered under section 27 (D) of the Drugs & Cosmetics Act where the shop can loose the license, policesaid.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK 24.03.2018
Chennai: Police detained three medical shop owners in Chintadripet for allegedly selling a particular brand of cough syrup without doctors’ prescription in large numbers.
Police got a tip off from from a habitual offender that he was addicted to a particular cough syrup and was taking it before committing a crime. Police said the offenders prefer to take ganja while committing a crime, this syrup seemed to help them tostayfocucssed.
Policesaidthey intake100ml of the particular brand and commit offences repeatedly on thestreetwithoutfear. This policesaidhelpedthem focuson the crime and go on a spree commiting offences. Based on this, policechecked at leasttwo medical shops located on Arunachala Naicken street in Chintadripet and found large stock of particular brand of syrup in the two medical shops. The trio Sahul Hameed, 62, Ibrahim, 42 and Velmurugan, 48 had madeentry for atleast 25 syrups being sold on a singleday.
When police checked whethr they had doctors’s prescription, they replied in negative as they give off without prescription becauseitwas a cough syrup. The owners were detainedfor questioning.
Chintaripet police sent a report to the TamiNadu food safety and drug administration department to take further action as they are authorised to book them.
Interrogations revealedthat theoffenders consume 100 ml of the syrup which is charged Rs 95 per bottle. Policehave alsoseized 109 bottlesfrom them.
“A drug insepector will visit the shop for further inquiries and initiate necessary action. They will have furnish the necessary detailsof the medicines sold,” said an investigating officer.
A case is likely to registered under section 27 (D) of the Drugs & Cosmetics Act where the shop can loose the license, policesaid.
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