Tramadol seizure: Clean chit to Kala Amb pharma firm owner raises eyebrows

PK Jaiswar

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, December 28

A clean chit by the police to the pharmaceutical firm owner, who was booked following a probe in connection with the seizure of banned Tramadol tablets in May this year, has raised eyebrows.

A probe by then Majitha ASP Abhimanyu Rana found Rakesh Goyal, the owner of Orison Pharma International, Kala Amb, as one of the prime suspects in the drug racket.

Rana submitted his report with the Amritsar Rural SSP on September 27.

Though the ASP’s probe was underway, Goyal moved an application before the Amritsar Rural SSP on September 9, claiming to be innocent. The SSP marked a probe to SP (Detective) Manoj Thakur, who gave Goyal a clean chit.

The SP (D) concluded that the phrama firm owner was nominated on the basis of “false facts”. The report was submitted to the SSP in November.

Thakur said he was unaware of any other probe. “The case was investigated impartially,” he said, adding “it was Ashish Chaudhry (one of the suspects) who procured Tramadol from Orison Pharma and later smuggled it into Punjab. He was yet to be arrested. Goyal delivered him Tramadol as per government norms”.