Assam: Two nabbed with huge cache of cough syrup bottles in Karimganj

Guwahati: A police team in Karimganj, Assam busted a possible cough syrup smuggling bit on arrested two suspected smugglers.

A police source said that acting on a tip-off, a police team intercepted a truck at a checkpoint along the Assam-Tripura border in Churaibari.

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A comprehensive search of the vehicle uncovered roughly 193 cartons containing around 9,700 bottles of cough syrup, identified as the codeine phosphate-based syrups Eskuf and Phensedyl.

Two men, Sadananda Ray and Sanjay Ray, both residents of West Bengal, were detained in connection with the seizure.

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Investigations are ongoing to determine the intended destination and purpose of the cough syrup.