Mumbai, June 18, 2018 : Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has busted an international drug syndicate for manufacturing the popular date rape drug, Ketamine, worth Rs.25 crore every month.
Hindustan Times has reported that the DRI arrested the alleged factory owner and one of the key players of the drug syndicate, Jimi Singh Sandhu, on June 14. Sandhu was living in Canada and is married to a Canadian woman. He was deported to India in 2015 following his involvement in street fights and house break-ins.He is the eleventh person to be arrested in the case, in which DRI raided 14 residential and industrial places in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa last week and seized 308 kg Ketamine, 2,000 kg of raw material, hashish, cocaine and opium worth nearly Rs.35 crore. Ten people, including four foreigners, were arrested.
Statright.com had reported in February 2014 that Jimi Singh Sandhu was charged in murder of Red Scorpions gangster Matthew Campbell in BC.
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What is Ketamine ?
Ketamine, categorized as a “dissociative anesthetic,”1 is used in powdered or liquid form as an anesthetic, usually on animals. It can be injected, consumed in drinks, snorted, or added to joints or cigarettes. Ketamine was placed on the list of controlled substances in the US in 1999.
Short- and long-term effects include increased heart rate and blood pressure, nausea, vomiting, numbness, depression, amnesia, hallucinations and potentially fatal respiratory problems. Ketamine users can also develop cravings for the drug. At high doses, users experience an effect referred to as “K-Hole,” an “out of body” or “near-death” experience.
Due to the detached, dreamlike state it creates, where the user finds it difficult to move, ketamine has been used as a “date-rape” drug.
( Source : www.drugfreeworld.org )