Mysore/Mysuru, April 30 -- A high-level District Narcotics Committee carried out surprise inspections at medical stores across the city yesterday to check the illegal sale of restricted drugs without prescription and take feedback from pharmacists to fight drug menace in city.

The team, led by Deputy Commissioner G. Lakshmikanth Reddy, who also heads the Committee, along with City Police Commissioner Seema Latkar and Superintendent of Police Mallikarjun Baladandi, visited several pharmacies to verify compliance with norms under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940.

The team visited numerous pharmacies to scrutinise bills and prescriptions for medicines listed under Schedules H, H1 and X, which include psychotropic and other regulated drugs...