The Commissionerate police on Wednesday seized over 1,600 bottles of cough syrup while it was being allegedly smuggled into the capital city.
Two persons were arrested in connection with the incident.
The arrested were identified as Jagannath Jena and Anil Nayak. Police said that both the accused were carrying out illegal trafficking of cough syrup for a long time.
“We got information that some persons were smuggling cough syrup from Kolkata to Bhubaneswar without any valid documents. A team was subsequently deployed at a bus-stop near Mancheswar. After necessary discussions with the Drugs Inspector, a case was registered under Section 21 B NDPS Act,” said ACP Gautam Kishan.
As there are not many instances of cough syrup bottles being brought to Bhubaneswar to be used as narcotics, it is suspected that this consignment was meant to be supplied to other parts of the State.
