Launched war on drugs, arrested 67 people for drug peddling in Sept.: Bengaluru police chief
Bengaluru, Oct 8: The Bengaluru police have launched a war on drugs and arrested 67 people, including three foreigners, in connection with drug peddling here last month, city Police Commissioner B Dayananda said on Tuesday.
He stressed that raids will be conducted in every part of the city to identify culprits and seize drugs. "Bengaluru police has launched a war on drugs and we have been maintaining a zero tolerance policy as far as drug peddling, drug transport or drug possession is concerned in the city."
"Accordingly, in the month of September, the city police including all the divisions and also the Crime Branch have detected 40 cases under the NDPS (Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances) Act and they have arrested about 67 persons out of which three persons are foreigners," Dayananda said.
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According to him, 170 kg ganja, two kg opium, 13 grams of cocaine, 372 grams of 'MDMA', and 998 'Ecstasy' tablets, among others, were seized last month.
"Everyday we will be doing raids in every part of the city and identifying the culprits as well as seizing their drugs. In addition to that, many of the foreigners who are indulging in drug peddling in Bengaluru city, we have been deporting them also," he said.
So far in 2024, about 80 foreigners were deported to their countries for drug peddling in Bengaluru.
"Where ever the case is registered, we try to go to the root of that case to identify from where the drug is being supplied like in HSR layout (jurisdiction), where 28 kg of ganja has been seized (recently)...the supply was coming from Tamil Nadu so we are trying to identify who is the main supplier in Tamil Nadu and how he is supplying... that investigation is still going on," Dayananda added.
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'Low-quality' catheters supplied to West Bengal govt hospitals at high price, probe ordered
Kolkata (PTI): The West Bengal health department has launched a probe into the supplies of allegedly low-quality and locally made catheters at a high price to several government hospitals, posing a risk to the lives of patients undergoing treatment in these facilities, officials said.
Such central venous catheters (CVCs) were allegedly supplied to at least five medical colleges and hospitals in the state, defying allocation of international standard-compliant CVCs, they said.
The distribution company, which has been accused of supplying these catheters to government hospitals, admitted to the fault but placed the blame on its employees.
"We started checking stocks some time back and found these locally made CVCs in my hospital store. These catheters are of low quality as compared to those allocated by the state. We have informed the state health department," a senior official of the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital told PTI.
Low-quality catheters were also found in the stores of other hospitals, which indicates "possible involvement of insiders in the scam", a health department official said.
The low-quality CVCs were supplied by a distributor in the Hatibagan area in the northern part of Kolkata for the last three to four months, he said.
"Such kinds of local CVCs are priced around Rs 1,500 but the distributor took Rs 4,177 for each device," the official said.
A CVC is a thin and flexible tube that is inserted into a vein to allow for the administration of fluids, blood, and other treatment. It's also clinically called a central line catheter.
"An initial probe revealed that the distribution company Prakash Surgical had supplied the low-quality and locally manufactured catheters to several government hospitals instead of the CVCs of the government-designated international company.
"All the units will be tested and a proper investigation is on to find out who benefited from these supplies," the health department official said.
The distribution company blamed its employees for the supply of inferior quality catheters.
"I was sick for a few months. Some employees of the organisation made this mistake. We are taking back all those units that have gone to the hospitals. It's all about misunderstanding," an official of the distribution company told PTI.
According to another state health department official, a complaint was lodged with the police in this connection.
Asked about how many patients were affected by the usage of such low-quality CVCs, the official said, "The probe would also try to find that out".
According to sources in the health department, some of the staff of the hospitals' equipment receiving departments and some local officials of international organisations might be involved in the alleged irregularities.
