Dr. Amit Bansal arrested by Vigilance Bureau Punjab.
Punjab Vigilance Bureau has arrested Dr. Amit Bansal, a Chandigarh resident who runs 22 de-addiction centers in different parts of the state. While Drug Inspector Ludhiana Rooppreet Kaur has also been made a co-accused in this case, who was soon arrested.
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De-addiction medicines were being sold in the market
Dr. Amit Bansal used to give Adnoc-N 0.4 and Adnoc-N 2.0 (buprenorphine and naloxone) tablets for the treatment of drug addicts. During interrogation, it has come to light that the accused were misusing the said pills in these de-addiction centers and these pills were being sold in the market to such persons and drug addicts. Whose name was not included in the list of these de-addiction centres.
Had caught pills and drug money earlier
Earlier, a case was registered against Vidant and Kamaljeet Singh, employees of Dr. Amit Bansal’s Simran Hospital and De-addiction Center in Ludhiana, at STF, Phase-4, Mohali on 05 October 2022. On the basis of the confessional statements given by these employees, about 23 thousand pills and drug money worth Rs 90 thousand were recovered from them. On the same day, the STF team in the presence of Drug Inspector Rooppreet Kaur investigated the said Simran de-addiction center, where according to the records, 4610 pills were found less.
Such facilities are provided inside de-addiction centres. (file photo)
Earlier the case was registered in Jalandhar
A video of another de-addiction center called Dr. Bansal’s Sahaj Hospital Nakodar was made viral by someone. Taking immediate notice of the then Deputy Commissioner of Jalandhar, a case was registered in this regard at Nakodar Police Station on June 8, 2024. During the inspection of the said Sahaj De-addiction Centre, about 1 lakh 44 thousand tablets of Adnoc-N were found less by the inspection committee.
Vigilance Bureau Punjab’s headquarters in Mohali, where a case has been registered against the accused.
The accused suppressed the case in connivance
The then Deputy Commissioner of Jalandhar had ordered to freeze the online portal of the said hospital and de-addiction center and suspend its license till the completion of the investigation. After this, Dr. Amit Bansal, in connivance with the officers and employees of the Directorate of Health and Family Welfare, Punjab, suppressed the matter. It is also learned that a separate case has been registered on November 11, 2024 at Police Station Anaj Mandi, Patiala against the employees of another Adarsh Hospital and De-addiction Center, Patiala, owned by Dr. Amit Bansal.