Panaji: An NDPS court has directed three Swedish nationals — Andreas Lorenzo Calic, Sami Antero Hilden Tanskanen, and Joel Emmanuel Caristrom — to face charges under the NDPS Act in connection with a Rs 2.6 crore narcotics raid conducted at Arambol in June last year.The ANC recovered LSD liquid, LSD papers, ketamine liquid, and ketamine powder from a rented premises. The court dismissed the trio’s discharge plea, noting that the seized substances tested positive for LSD and ketamine on a drug detection kit. The court held this was sufficient at this stage to frame charges and that there is prima facie material against the accused individuals.The court discharged the fourth accused, Siddhesh Dabholkar, a pharmacist whom the Swedish nationals allegedly told the investigating officer they had procured the contraband from. The court noted that a separate FDA raid on the pharmacy found medicines being sold to a decoy customer without a valid prescription, leading to suspension of the licence, but that no LSD or ketamine was found or seized in that raid. Additional sessions judge-2 (FTC-2) at Merces, Shilpa Pandit, said the FDA raid did not aid the prosecution in the NDPS case.The court also recorded that there was no scientific/forensic evidence, including call detail records, to show communication between accused 1 to 3 and accused 4, and held there was no material to frame charges against Dabholkar.Seizures attached during the house search included LSD liquid (24.8g) worth Rs 2.5 crore, 70 LSD paper pieces (0.6g) worth Rs 7 lakh, ketamine liquid (49.3g) worth Rs 2.5 lakh, and ketamine powder (1.5g) worth Rs 15,000.Counsel for the three Swedish accused argued they are law-abiding Swedish citizens who entered India legally, are responsible persons and fathers, and overstayed due to circumstances for which they have already been convicted and have served the sentence. The defence also argued that ketamine is a licensed pharmaceutical, the quantity was below “small quantity”, and there was no scientific identification of the substances.