Mysore/Mysuru, Jan. 30 -- Home Minister Dr. G. Parameshwar said that the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) raid on a chemical factory in Hebbal Industrial Area was a follow-up to a drug seizure in another State and asserted that no narcotics manufacturing materials were found in Mysuru.

Speaking to presspersons this morning, Dr. Parameshwar said the NCB had conducted the raid at a phenol manufacturing unit and clarified that no drug-related substances were recovered.

He said some relatives of an accused arrested in a drug case outside the State were residing in Mysuru, following which NCB officials conducted inquiries. However, he claimed that no one was taken into custody from the city, though the NCB sleuths took factory owner Ganpath La...