Pharmacy operator among 4 arrested for selling drugs without prescription

KATHMANDU : Police have arrested a pharmacy operator including four others for selling drugs without any prescription from Tarkeshwor Municipality- 5 in Kathmandu district.

The arrestee have beeen identified as Dil Bahadur Karki (42) of Ganga Jamuna Rural Municipality-5, Dhading, Rajkumar Tamang (42) and Sanu Tamang (22) of Kakani Rural Municipality-1, Nuwakot and Sanjaya Putuwar (24) of Tarkeshwor Municipality-5.

Acting on a tip-off, police apprehended them from Ganga Jamuna Pharmacy in Lolang of Tarkeshwor-5. Karki is the owner of the pharmacy.

According to the police, 450 tablets of Spaspen, 240 tablets of Trama and 500 capsules of Tramadol have been recovered from the pharmacy.

They have been sent to the Department of Drug Administration (DDA) for further investigation, police said.