India, April 25 -- A special Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) court on April 8, rejected the bail plea of the chief operating officer of a Bangalore-based company, who was arrested by the customs department for allegedly attempting to smuggle around one million tramadol tablets worth Rs.21 crore to Sudan in February 2023. The consignment was intercepted by the customs department before it could be shipped to a pharmacy firm in Juba, South Sudan.

This is the fourth bail plea filed by the 49-year-old COO of M/s First Wealth Solutions, Gudipati Subramaniyam. The firm had allegedly mis-declared the banned psychotropic substance as Tamol-X-225, a calcium carbonate tablet and was trying to smuggle it abroad, but the central in...