Haryana man held in Coimbatore for online sale of sedative pills

COIMBATORE: A special team from the Enforcement Bureau Crime Investigation Department of Coimbatore city police arrested a Haryana-based drug supplier on Friday and seized 19,500 sedative pills from his possession.

The accused has been identified as R Sachin Garg (41), a native of Naraingarh in Haryana. He operated a pharmaceutical company that mostly sold sedatives and scheduled drugs. On July 16, a police team busted a drug peddling racket and arrested C Mariya (30), and her friends S Yashik Elaki (26), M Poochi Krishnan (24), and A Snetha (31) and seized 200 pills and four kilograms of ganja from them.

Mariya told police that she purchased Tapentadol – a painkiller online and sold it. Her friend Snetha was also involved in peddling. Following this, police arrested J Rizwan Suhail (24) from Sowkar Nagar at Karumbukadai and Ashik Sherif (24) from Poonga Nagar at Karumbukadai and seized 1,000 painkiller tablets for illegal sales on July 19, 2024.