7,142 bottles of illegal cough syrup seized in Ahmedabad.
AHMEDABAD: Kagdapith police on Saturday night seized 7,142 bottles worth Rs 7,64,000 of different brands ofcough syrup containing codeine from Devanshi Pan Parlour in Behrampura and from a rented house in Suvrna Rukha Society in Danilimda.
Inspector U D Jadeja of Kagdapith police station said they have arrested the shopowner, Pankaj Danagar, while the supplier of the stuff, Bharat Chaudhary, is on the run.
“We have registered a case under sections 8C, 21C and 29 of NDPS act. We are looking for Chaudhary who is the kingpin of the racket,” said Jadeja. Police sources said that with booze in short supply, alcoholics have begun turning to cough syrups to get their kicks.
“On Saturday evening, following up on a tip-off, we sent a decoy to the pan parlour. The owner gave our man a cough syrup without a bill or prescription. We raided the shop and found 21 bottles,” said sub-inspector K A Jadeja. During the shopowner’s interrogation, he revealed that cough syrup bottles containing codeine were stocked at his rented house. “Dangar also confessed that Chaudhary used to supply the cough syrup to him,” said a police official.
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