An officer with the National Crime Bureau said on Sunday that the Mumbai unit seized 8,640 bottles of cough syrup containing codeine, a banned narcotic drug, from the Thane area and detained two people in connection with it.
A Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) crew intercepted a car on the Agra-Mumbai highway near Bhiwandi town in Thane on Saturday after receiving information. The NCB officer added that while searching the vehicle, they found 8,640 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup in 60 boxes, weighing a total of 864 kg.
The car driver was arrested, and the NCB set up a trap and immediately arrested another person who was set to receive the consignment after chasing his two-wheeler for about two kilometres, he said, adding that both cars were impounded. According to the official, the consignment was meant for intoxication and non-prescribed purposes in Mumbai and Thane. NCB has filed a complaint against the two people.
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