Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has busted an illegal pharma drugs trafficking racket with the arrest of four persons and seized over 55,000 tablets of Zolpidem, abused as drugs, from their possession, the agency said today.
Zolpidem, a sedative medicine, is used to treat sleep disorders and its abuse as narcotic drugs can lead to hallucinations and other side effects.
The central anti-narcotics agency said the alleged racket, where medicines are abused as drugs, was being run using courier services and it brought to the fore "a new modus operandi for trafficking of pharmaceutical drugs through call centres."
The agency, in a statement, said that four accused P Rana, P Bisht, R C Singh and K K Tiwary "acted as drug traffickers and obtained contact numbers of illegal buyers/sellers of phrama drugs from a legal platform available on the internet."