Sanghai gets seven more days in custody
Kathmandu, August 2
The Lalitpur District Court remanded Ratan Lal Sanghai and three others to seven more days in police custody to proceed with further investigation into their alleged involvement in smuggling drug chemicals.
Ratal Lal, proprietor of Lalitpur-based Sanghai Plastic Industries, and his alleged associates were produced before the court after the first four-day remand ended today, said SSP Ganesh KC.
The Narcotics Control Bureau had arrested Ratan Lal, Dilip Pandit, an employee of Bara-based Arya Pharmalab ’s office in Kathmandu, and Shyam Tamang and Badri Ban, the alleged henchmen of Ratan Lal, and his younger brother Pawan Kumar Sanghai with over 472 kg of pseudoephedrine on July 12.
The chemicals of amphetamine was found concealed in a warehouse of the plastic factory that the NCB said was stored by the Arya Pharmalab to smuggle them to India, China and Myanmar.
The Sanghai brothers own both the plastic factory and the pharmaceutical company. SSP KC informed that Pawan Kumar was still absconding and a search for him was under way.
Meanwhile, the NCB has requested Nepal Rastra Bank to freeze bank accounts of the Sanghais to prevent transaction of cash in the course of investigation.
Police in association with the Department of Drug Administration have also kept other pharmaceutical companies under surveillance to ascertain if they are also misusing the chemicals meant for manufacturing medicines within the country.
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