Police seals medical shop

Excelsior Correspondent
SAMBA, Oct 4: Acting tough against drug menace & its propagators a medical shop was sealed for illegally selling banned drugs in Swakha Morh adjacent to Vijaypur town by police today.
Based on a written complaint against one Sanjay Sharma, S/o Lt. Mukhand Lal, R/o Swankha Morh, Tehsil Vijaypur district Samba who was running Sharma Medical Hall & indulged in selling banned drugs and psychotropic substances to the young generation of the area illegally, a police party of P/S Vijaypur headed raided the shop today.
The raid was conducted by police on the directives of Additional SP Faisal Qureshi. The police party was led SHO, Police Station, Vijaypur, Inspector, Chaman Gorkha under the supervision of SDPO Vijaypur, Dr. Lov Karan Taneja along with a team of Drug and Food Control Organisation, Samba headed by Food Inspector, Vikas. It recovered a good quantity of cache of banned and illegal narcotic drugs in the premises of the shop along with eight branded liquor bottles of 750 ml each.
During preliminary questioning the owner namely Sanjay Sharma and his employee namely Ashwani Kumar, S/o Hari Dayal, R/o Badali Tehsil Ramgarh, district Samba were unable to give any invoice of the banned drugs and availability of the liquors in the shop. On this, all the illegal drugs & liquor was seized and in this connection a case FIR No. 152/2019 U/S 8/21/22/25-a NDPS Act has been registered at P/S Vijaypur and investigation is going on.