Rs 8.32 Crore Tramadol Haul: Gujarat ATS Arrests Rajasthan-Based Medical Stockist
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has seized 2.08 lakh Tramadol tablets worth an estimated Rs 8.32 crore and arrested a Rajasthan-based medical stockist allegedly involved in trafficking of the restricted psychotropic substance, officials said on Friday.
Acting on a tip-off, an ATS team on Thursday intercepted a luxury private bus en route to Rajasthan’s Pali district from Ankleshwar in Gujarat.
“During a search of the bus at Ahmedabad’s Shahibaug, the ATS team recovered six cardboard boxes, containing 416 smaller boxes. Each box bore the label ‘Tramadol hydrochloride IP tablets 100 mg scovidol-100 tablets,” an official release stated.
The team seized a total of 4,160 strips containing 2,08,000 Tramadol tablets, with an estimated international market value of Rs 8.32 crore. The consignment was accompanied by a tax invoice in the name of New Mahavir Medical, in which the Tramadol tablets were falsely declared as other medicines, it added.
Tramadol, a restricted opioid painkiller, has been classified as a psychotropic substance under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
After seizing the consignment, the ATS launched a search for its owner, a medical stockist.
“A team was dispatched to Udaipur after the ATS learnt that the accused had fled to Rajasthan. Paresh Jain, a resident of Valsad (in Gujarat) originally from Rajasthan, was arrested on Thursday and has been remanded to seven days of police custody by a court,” said Deputy Superintendent of Police S L Chaudhary.
During interrogation, the accused revealed that since May 2026, he had procured 62.54 lakh Tramadol tablets in 25 consignments and sold them in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, the release noted.
Jain also disclosed that he had previously been arrested under the NDPS Act in Uttarakhand and Maharashtra in connection with the seizure of codeine-based cough syrup, it said.
The investigation further revealed that since obtaining a medical stockist licence in May 2026, the accused had primarily been engaged in the trade of Tramadol.
The ATS stated that the accused’s involvement has also surfaced in a recent narcotics seizure case in which four people were arrested in Vapi last month with 2.38 kg of mephedrone, a synthetic stimulant drug.
