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200 million Rupees worth of Tramadol destroyed
View(s):By Hiran Priyankara Jayasinghe
The largest haul of narcotics detected by the Sri Lanka Customs and the Police Narcotics Bureau- 200-million-Rupees-worth of illegally smuggled Tramadol pills- was destroyed at the high intensity furnace at the Cement Factory in Palaviya, Puttalam, early this week.
The haul of drugs was incinerated before Colombo Additional Magistrate Kasun Kanchana Dassanayake in the evening of Monday, July 21.
The hoard had been smuggled into the country on September 10, 2018. The pills had been brought into the country hidden in a container that had been declared as containing baby and adult diapers. When due to suspicions the customs officers and the Police Narcotics Bureau officials inspected it, they found over 1,50,00000 Tramadol pills.
However, initially during the investigation, the Attorney General (AG) permitted the container to be handed over to shipping companies as they were unable to reveal an offence according to National Medicines Regulatory Authority Act, no. 5 of 2015.
However, following another investigation, the AG Department advised to destroy the narcotic pills keeping with the requirements of the Poison, Opium and Dangerous Drugs Act, No 41 of 2021.
Therefore, after the matter was notified to the court an order had been issued to destroy the narcotic pills held in the container at the high intensity furnace of the Puttalam cement factory.
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