Mumbai, 24 July (HS): The police raided a closed pharmaceutical

factory in Maharashtra’s Mahad town of Raigad district and recovered a banned

drug worth Rs 88,92 crore. Four people were arrested in this connection.

According to police, the Rohan Chemicals company on

plot number 26/3 in MIDC, Mahad, was closed for the last several months. The

police got information that the drugs are being illegally manufactured in the

company. A banned drug, Ketamine, which is used as an anaesthetic medicine

promoting sleep, and also used (Misused) by the drug addicts, was being

manufactured in the factory. Police raided the premises to fins a huge stock of

the banned drug in the premises. Four persons were arrested an an offence under

Sections 8©, 25, 27(a), 29, 42 of the NDPS Act and section 3 (5) of Bharatiya

Nyaya Sanhita was registered against them.

Further investigation into the wider network related

to the banned drug has been initiated.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Ajay Vasant Mardikar