New Delhi: Delhi is not only a transit point in drug smuggling, but also a big consumer of party drugs. The recent death of NRI Anmol Sarna was one case which once again highlighted the easy availability of drugs in Delhi NCR, police said.
According to police, ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, major constituents of cough syrups and tablets are illegally used in manufacturing of high-quality party drugs such as Methamphetamine (commonly known as Ice, Ecstasy, etc.) and smuggled from India to international markets.
"They are smuggled from pharmaceutical factories in Dehradun (Uttarakhand), Baddi and Solan (Himachal Pradesh) to Myanmar via Delhi and northeastern states like Manipur and Mizoram, said DCP (Crime-South), Bhisham Singh.
As pseudoephedrine and ephedrine are legal for manufacture for use in medicines and can be bought on prescription, they are brought to Delhi in form of tablets by drug traffickers in the name of fake pharmaceutical companies, he said.
From Delhi, they are sent to Manipur or Mizoram. There, they are powdered and reprocessed to extract the main constituents, he added.
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