Trichy Palakkarai Police Inspector Periyasamy led a police patrol. At that time, a gang of 3 people were standing suspiciously in the Mudaliar Chatram Goodset Road area. When the police caught them and interrogated them, it was revealed that they were Prakash, aged 25, from Alam Street area, Mudaliar Chatram, Palakkarai, Sanjay Kumar, aged 22, from Malligaipuram area, Palakkarai, and Indrani, aged 50, from the same area, and that they were selling narcotic pills. When the police searched their motorcycle, it was revealed that 5500 narcotic pills were hidden in it. The police who seized them arrested all three of them. They were taken to the police station and during intensive interrogation, they said that they had bought narcotic pills from a drug shop in Guntur, Trichy. Following this, Kodandapani, 33, who runs a drug store in the Guntur MIET area, was arrested. 7000 pills that he had illegally stored in his drug store were seized. A total of three lakh 75 thousand rupees worth of narcotic pills were seized. The motorcycle used for smuggling was also seized.

In this regard, police officials say that these pills should not be sold without a doctor’s prescription, but Kodandapani has been arrested on the basis of selling these narcotic pills without a prescription.