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The police have recovered 1,624 liters of rectified liquor from the Homoeo Hall and Laboratories of Karatoya in Natai Para of the city of Bogra.
They were rescued from the Karatoya Homoeo Lab crash in the Nataipara area of the city at 11:30 a.m. Thursday.
Officer in Charge of Bogra Sadar Police Station, Humayun Kabir The daily starWho confirms the matter.
He said police carried out the operation while investigating a poison liquor death case in Bogra.
By the way, 13 people have died in Bogra in recent days due to drinking poisonous liquor. However, police say six people have so far died in the district from drinking poisonous alcohol.
On February 1, a case was registered in the Sadar police station in connection with the deaths and yesterday the police arrested four people. Subsequently, the court granted them preventive detention for two days if they requested a seven-day preventive detention.
In the last two days, the police are known to have raided several homeopathy shops and factories. Yesterday, 5 liters of ethyl alcohol were seized from Khan Homoeo Hall, Parul and Poonam Homoeo Laboratory. 20 liters of rectified alcohol and 8 boxes of ethyl alcohol of national homeopathic medicines were recovered. In addition, the police seized some more liquids mixed with ethanol.
According to sources from the Bogra Drug Administration, Karatoya Homoeo Hall and Laboratories can only import 29 liters of rectified spirits per year. However, they have illegally imported this amount of ethanol (rectified liquor).
Shariful Islam Mollah, Deputy Director of the Bogra Drug Administration The daily star“Parul and Poonam Homoeo Laboratories do not have a rectified import license at this time. Poonam’s license issued by the Drug Administration expired in 2005 and Parul Homoeo Lab expired in 2015. ‘
The illegal use of secretly rectified spirits has increased in Bogra after the death of 13 people from poisoning.
When asked about the illegal use of rectified spirits, Shariful Islam Mollah, deputy director of the Bogra Drug Administration, said that it was the responsibility of the Department of Narcotics Control to investigate.
Bogra Police Superintendent Ali Ashraf Bhuiyan said: “While investigating the case of the deceased due to poisoning, we learned that some unscrupulous traders and people involved in the manufacture of homeopathic medicines in Bogra are selling ethanol mixed with methanol in the open market in the hope of more profit. ” Many people are dying from alcohol poisoning. We will identify them and submit them to the law.
Sources said that most homeopathic labs in Bogra sell methanol to local drug addicts in hopes of making more profit by importing a certain amount of rectified spirits per year from the Drug Administration and the Department of Narcotics or by importing large amounts of ethanol without permission. Therefore, they are earning millions of rupees a year. Rectified spirits mixed with this methanol are toxic.
Sources further say that the market price of methanol is Rs 150 per kg. On the other hand, the price of rectified alcohol or ethanol is 450 rupees per kg. For this reason, drug dealers sell methanol mixed with rectified spirits to drug addicts for additional profit.
I wanted to know this from the Deputy Director of the District Narcotics Control Department, Mehedi Hasan. The daily star“We have Homoeo Laboratories that have licenses to import a certain amount of rectified spirits (20-400 liters in Bogra). When they import rectified spirits, one of our officers goes and supervises them,” he said. The officer came with permission to make homeopathic medicines after supervision.
“The labs that import more ethanol and sell it on the open market store it in their warehouses or elsewhere,” he said. As a result, we don’t realize it. Again, we conduct regular operations when we receive secret information.
According to the Bogra Narcotics Control Department, Poonam Homoeo Laboratory is not licensed to import rectified spirits. Parul’s license has expired since last year. Previously, they had obtained permission to import 400 liters of rectify per year to manufacture homeopathic medicines.
