Srinagar: A local court here on Tuesday sentenced two drug traffickers to ten year imprisonment besides imposing on them a penalty of Rs one lakh each.
The traffickers were convicted a few days ago under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act for trafficking illegally in commercial quantities of psychotropic substances including Z-rex syrup and Zen-Cavit capsules.
Pronouncing the quantum of punishment, Special Judge NDPS Cases Srinagar, Vinod Kumar, sentenced the duo Mudasir Sultan Bhat @ Majid, and Feroz Ahmad Khan @ Jaja, both residents of Bemina, the city outskirts, to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment under Section 22 NDPS Act (commercial quantity) and imposed a fine of Rs 1,00,000 on each.
In default of payment of fine, the court ordered further rigorous imprisonment of the convicts for one year.
Similarly, under Section 29 NDPS Act (abetment and conspiracy), the duo was sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for 10 years and a fine of Rs 1,00,000 each.
In default of payment of fine, the court correspondingly ordered further rigorous imprisonment for one year of the guilty.
The court additionally sentenced Mudasir to simple imprisonment for three years and imposed on him a fine of Rs 5,000 under Section 420 IPC (cheating).
Similarly, under Section 471 IPC (using forged documents), the court awarded the guilty simple imprisonment for one year and a fine of Rs 5,000.
However, all the sentences pronounced on the guilty shall run concurrently.
According to the prosecution, the accused number one, Mudasir, ran a business concern titled Hurairah Pharmaceuticals. He received consignments on a drug licence bearing licence no SW19327/28 date of issue 25/04/2013 to 24/04/2018.
The license was, however, cancelled by Deputy Drug Controller Kashmir on March 27, 2018.
Furthermore, the proprietor was receiving psychotropic substances from a paramedical company based in Delhi under the name and style Embit Biomedix who in return have received consignments from drug manufacturing company Vedit Health-care.
The said proprietor has made the payments of huge amounts of money to Embit Biomedix for obtaining the consignments of drugs, majority of which are psychotropic substances.
During the course of investigation, it also surfaced the said proprietor has not only received consignments of psychotropic substances on his business concern namely Huraira Pharmaceutical Company by manipulation of documents, he had also received illicit consignment of psychotropic substance on other business concerns namely New Adam Paramedical Agency and Suhaib Pharma and sold the same illegally among the young people of Srinagar and adjacent areas, stated the prosecution.
Investigation with regard to the involvement of the proprietors of New Adam/Suhaib Pharma is going on, it said.
Mudasir, with criminal intention, provided tampered drug licence to Embit Biomedix for receiving subsequent illegal consignments of codeine phosphate, it added.
That documents provided by Embit Biomedix and bank statements established that accused Mudasir had received 1,52,810 bottles of codeine phosphate from EMBIT Biomedix within one year and has made payments to the tune of Rs 80 lakh (approx.) to EMBIT Biomedix from different bank accounts.
Despite conducting the several raids at their residence and other locations, the two accomplices namely Waseem Ahmad Lone S/O Mohammad Subhan Lone of Nundrishi Colony Bemina; Faizan Ahmad Makaya S/O Shabir Ahhmad Makaya of Usmana Abad Bemina are still at large as they are avoiding their arrest.
