counterfeit drugs found from late MP's house, 2 held
PATNA, May 26 -- A joint team of the Directorate of Drug Control and Gaya Ji police have recovered banned drugs worth Rs.50 lakh and arrested two suspects from the house of late Ranjit Singh alias Rang Singh, who was an MP, two-time MLA and a practising lawyer in Darbhanga court.
Singh's house is in Pirpainti locality of Kotwali police station area, and residents and police officers said it has largely been rented out to various tenants.
Besides counterfeit drugs, police also seized raw materials used in the manufacturing of various medicines, an officer said.
One arrested suspect has been identified as Vikas Kumar Maurya and the other is a woman. Maurya is alleged to be the main trader of the illegal drugs and used to supply them to various states from Bihar, he officer added.
Police conducted a thorough search of the entire house and found that the illegal drug racket was being run from the upper floor, an officer said, adding that the first floor has been rented out to the Bihar government's Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Department.
Assistant Drug Controller Vijay Kumar said raids and searches were carried out based on a tip-off, recovering a large quantity of counterfeit drugs.
The accused, arrested during initial investigation, said the medicines were brought from Deoghar and stored here. He said the investigation is ongoing, so details cannot be shared at the moment.
"The house is said to belong to former MP Ranjit Singh alias Rang Singh, who was elected as an MP on a Congress ticket from Chatra in 1980. He died a few years ago. The accused was running the business in his house," said an investigator familiar with the matter....
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