12 medical store owners, 2 others booked in multi-crore codeine syrup scam
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Jaunpur: In a major crackdown on the illegal trade of codeine-based cough syrup, an FIR has been lodged against 12 medical store owners and two others, officials said on Sunday.
A drug department investigation revealed that over 37 lakh bottles of codeine syrup worth around Rs 57 crore were shown as sold using forged documents across more than a dozen medical stores.
As per PTI, Superintendent of Police (City) Ayush Srivastava said the case was lodged on the complaint of Drug Inspector Rajat Kumar Pandey.
The racket surfaced after a truck carrying the syrup was seized in Ghaziabad.
Following this, the FSDA (Food Safety and Drug Administration) UP conducted a week-long drive from November 12-19, uncovering large-scale manipulation of billing and records.
Superintendent of Police (SP) Kaustubh has formed a three-member SIT to investigate further.
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