Cuttack: Purighat Police have arrested two persons in connection with the alleged sale of spurious drugs, informed Cuttack DCP Pinak Mishra.
“The accused have been identified as Rahul Kumar Kyal (27) and Sanjaya Kumar Jalan (52) and they are being forwarded to court,” Mishra said addressing a presser here today.
Mishra said that during the course of the investigation and through interrogation, police found that Kyal and Jalan had procured spurious drugs from two firms, one in Bengaluru and the other in Bihar’s Gaya and were selling these drugs to wholesalers and retailers in different places.
He informed that considering the sensitivity of the case and gravity of the offence, a special police team will be sent outside the State to investigate the matter.
He said the accused will be brought on remand for further interrogation and those retailers/wholesalers who had purchased those medicines knowing it to be spurious will be also brought under the purview of investigation.
