Tk40 lakh illegal drugs seized in Ctg wholesale drug market
Those unregistered medicines were destroyed, Executive Magistrate Prateek Dutta says
Chattogram district administration raided the drug wholesale market in Chattogram's Hazari Lane and seized unregistered drugs worth Tk40 lakh from two warehouses of a building there.
The mobile court, led by Executive Magistrates Prateek Dutta and Abdullah Al Mamun, also fined three pharmacies Tk80,000 for keeping physicians' samples of medicines on Tuesday night.
Shakhawat Hossain Akand Raju, assistant director of the Directorate of Drug Administration, Chattogram, and a team from Kotwali Police Station assisted them in seizing illegal drugs from godowns on the third and fourth floors of the Chabila Complex.
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Executive Magistrate Prateek Dutta said, "After slapping a fine for keeping physicians' samples of medicines, the owners went outside the market by closing the pharmacies and refused to reopen those, despite requests from the market committee and the pharmacy owners association.
Later, a 12-member team of police from Kotwali Police Station joined the drive.
"At one stage, the mobile court team broke the locks of two warehouses and seized huge unregistered medicines. Later, those unregistered medicines were destroyed and the physicians' samples were sent to the Chattogram Medical College (CMC) Hospital," the magistrate said.
Prateek Dutta also said the seized drugs are unregistered for selling in the Bangladesh market. There is no registration number on the packaging of these medicines, mostly from India and Thailand.
During the drive, the owner of the warehouse that kept illegal drugs was not traced. The investigation goes on and police have been instructed to take legal action, he added.
