A polícia na Índia apreendeu 119.675 garrafas de xarope para tosse de codeína proibida de dois caminhões, prendendo três homens em conexão com uma grande operação de contrabando de drogas. Police in India seized 119,675 bottles of banned codeine cough syrup from two trucks, arresting three men in connection with a major drug smuggling operation.

A polícia de Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh, apreendeu 119.675 garrafas de xarope de tosse proibido contendo codeína, avaliadas em 3,5 crore, de dois caminhões em 18 de outubro de 2025, perto de Churk na rodovia Varanasi-Shaktinagar. Police in Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh, seized 119,675 bottles of banned cough syrup containing codeine, valued at ₹3.5 crore, from two trucks on October 18, 2025, near Churk on the Varanasi-Shaktinagar highway. O xarope, escondido entre as caixas de lanche, estava sendo transportado de Ghaziabad para Jharkhand. The syrup, hidden among snack cartons, was being transported from Ghaziabad to Jharkhand. Três homens de Madhya Pradesh – Hemant Pal, Brajmohan Shivhare e Ramgopal Dhakad – foram presos e confessaram ter contrabandeado as drogas, aguardando instruções de entrega de um contato em Jharkhand. Three men from Madhya Pradesh—Hemant Pal, Brajmohan Shivhare, and Ramgopal Dhakad—were arrested and confessed to smuggling the drugs, awaiting delivery instructions from a contact in Jharkhand. O caso, registrado sob a Lei NDPS e Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, está sob investigação, com veículos apreendidos por falta de documentação. The case, registered under the NDPS Act and Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, is under investigation, with vehicles seized for lacking documentation.