The Department of Narcotics has seized sacks of phensedyl cough syrup from various shops of Gwalior and Morena. An investigation team of the department has seized 163 sacks of the phensedyl cough syrup from Ravi Nagar.
According to the information, these syrups were going to be exported to Bangladesh and Myanmar. However, investigation team has recovered no documents regarding the shipment of the cough syrup or about where it came from.
Narcotics department’s Assistant Commissioner Dharmraj has said, “We will inspect the drug shop of Gopal Gupta, from whom we have seized this syrup. We will also open the medical shops of Morena and would conduct the further investigation after searching his residence (Ravi Nagar). It has been discovered that Gupta is using his house as the godown to keep the stock of phensedyl. When the narcotics team went to his house at ravi nagar, team failed to get find anything as there were no family members. Various things looked suspicious to the team that Gupta is using his home as the godown to store the restricted cough syrup.”
Drug inspector Ajay Thakur has said, “Phensedyl will not be sold in the city as well as outside the Gwalior city. These days, patients are not using phensedyl so it has been restricted from the market. Only sixteen drug dealers of the city are having the license to sell the phensedyl cough syrup. However the administration has decided to cancel their licenses in order to stop the illegal trade.”
Rajeev Kumar, Additional Commissioner of Narcotics has said, “We have recovered phensedyl in huge quantity and it is assumed that it was going to be exported in several countries like Bangladesh and Myanmar. We are conducting the investigation.”