EXCISE SEIZES RS.700,000 WORTH ECSTASY PILLS

EXCISE SEIZES RS.700,000 WORTH ECSTASY PILLS

A stock of psychoactive drug ‘Ecstasy’ worth over Rs.700,000 was seized by the Colombo Excise Station official when they carried out a raid in a house in Wattala yesterday morning.

The officials on information raided a house in Kerawalapitiya and arrested one person who was said to have been distributing Cannabis in the surrounding areas.

However,after searching the house the sleuths managed to find 200 grams of Kerala Ganja along with 50 Ecstasy tablets, which are popularly taken among the consumers as a party drug or a ‘dancing pill’. Ecstasy or the chemical composition known as MDMA (3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine) are usually sold at around Rs.5,000 in the underground market but lately it had suddenly become scarce over unclear reasons.

According to Excise sources,50 such tablets had been recovered from the suspect where a pill was sold between Rs.8,000 to 10,000 due to the scarcity. The MDMA tablets are mainly suspected to have been smuggled from China and Vietnam, the sources said.

OIC Colombo Excise Station Chanaka Nanayakkara, Inspectors Chinthaka Udapamunuwa and Ajantha Gallage with Guards Sampath Liyanage and Nilantha Rajapaksha are conducting inquiries on the instructions of Assistant Excise Commissioner B A Dayaratne and Superintendent Vijitha Gamanayake.