AURANGABAD: The
special squad
of the
Aurangabad
city police nabbed a 42-year-old suspect and seized 300 pills of scheduled
drugs
as well as a small quantity of a banned drug. The
arrested
accused has been identified as Mohsin Ali Hashmi, a resident of Anandnagar in the Padegaon area of the city.
Squad’s assistant inspector Rahul Rode said the accused was nabbed soon after he landed at the Aurangabad railway station. The police have seized 100 tablets of nitrazepam, a hypnotic drug, and 200 tablets of alprazolam, an opioid. In addition, police have also seized 0.28 gram of mephedrone from the accused, who has confessed that he brought these drugs from Mumbai.
Drug inspector Jeevan Jadhav said that the seized hypnotic drug is used for inducing sleep and is to be given under medical supervision only. He said that nitrazepam tablets belong to a class of medicines called benzodiazepines.
The accused has been handed over to the Vedantnagar police station, where a case under sections of the NDPS Act has been
booked
.
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