Acting on reliable intelligence, a special police team launched an operation near a fly ash brick factory at Tumbekela and intercepted a truck carrying the banned cough syrup.
The court found a prima facie case under the NDPS Act after police allegedly recovered over 36,000 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup from an unlicensed Azadpur premises.
Acting on a tip-off, a team raided an illegal warehouse in Parsaura village under the Dargah Sharif police station limits, where the cough syrup bottles were found stored in cartons.
Despite the increased enforcement, the country has also witnessed a rise in the consumption of codeine-based cough syrups, prescription opioids and sleeping pills.
