Online trading of drugs detected

NEW DELHI: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Wednesday arrested four persons — one of them a doctor — for trading in illegal drugs and psychotropic substances Online and exporting them.
The Faridabad-based firm, Venture Netcom, used its website, www.rxepharma.biz for contacting clients in US, UK, Germany and Australia. Payments were received through credit cards and the drugs sent through EMS Speed Post.The sale included illegal drugs and controlled psychotropic substances (CPS) — which cannot be exported without authorisation from Narcotics Commissioner of India, said NCB sources.
All arrests have been made under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
Over last one year, the firm had exported drugs worth nearly Rs 1 lakh. The margin in shipping works out to over Rs 60 lakh.
The case came to light when the NCB’s Delhi unit raided the firm. At least 2,340 controlled drug tablets like Diazepam, Calmpose, Alprax etc. were seized.
All three partners of the firm — Biplab Ray, Anil Chatterjee and Javed — were arrested.
The firm, they disclosed during interrogation, was operating without a valid Drug Licence. Though the company was located in Faridabad, all the export activities were being done from Delhi.
From Charmwood Village, Faridabad, the NCB unit later arrested Dr Ritu Raj Singh, who was supplying all the psycho tropic substances. Singh ran a chemist shop, M/s Charmwood Chemists.
Searches here led to the recovery of as many as 2,654 tablets of various controlled psychotropic substances.