AGARTALA, February 24 (TIWN): State Govt had cancelled the license of 33 medical shops in the year 2013 and 2014, says Health Minister Badal Choudhury. While the unavailability of generic medicines became a nightmare for the common people of the State, the spurious medicines and illegal medicines sold at local drug stores leading the life of the patients to death. Besides these chemist shops are selling the medicines at exaggerated prices which is impossible for the patients to buy. In some cases, Drug Inspectors not interested in any enquiry, keeping eyes closed in exchange of bribe. It is to be said that in the year 2013, license of 8 medical shops were suspended. But drastically it increased to 25 in the year 2014. A highly placed source in the Tripura Police said that preliminary investigations after recovery of illegal drugs in Tripura revealed that drugs which contain substantial amount of codeine phosphate, e.g., Phensedyl or newer cough syrups like Linctus and Recodex, Alprazolam, Morphine, Diazepam, Nitrazepam, etc, are being illegally imported from Delhi, making way for smuggling from Tripura into Bangladesh.