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STF busts ‘dirty business’ of cough syrup smuggling, nabs 3 traffickers with ‘one crore’ worth of drugs.
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News18•28-09-2026, 23:51
STF busts ‘dirty business’ of cough syrup smuggling, nabs 3 traffickers with ‘one crore’ worth of drugs.
- •Uttar Pradesh STF busted a large interstate gang involved in codeine cough syrup smuggling, arresting three main accused from Prayagraj.
- •The arrested traffickers were identified as Ashutosh Tiwari alias Pravesh Tiwari, Ankesh Prajapati, and Amit Prajapati.
- •An illegal warehouse was being operated in Vivek Srivastava's house in the Airport police station area of Prayagraj.
- •Police recovered illegal codeine cough syrup and intoxicating generic tablets worth about one crore rupees, a Tata Nexon car, and other items.
- •The gang illegally purchased drugs from Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, and Chandigarh, distributing them in Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh.
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The Uttar Pradesh STF arrested three main accused from Prayagraj identified as Ashutosh Tiwari alias Pravesh Tiwari, Ankesh Prajapati, and his brother Amit Prajapati for smuggling codeine cough syrup.
During the raid on the illegal warehouse in Prayagraj, law enforcement recovered illegal codeine cough syrup and intoxicating generic tablets with an estimated market value of about one crore rupees.
Another gang member named Jatin Mishra, also known as Shivam Mishra, operated a fake pharmaceutical company at a New Delhi address and helped create fake documents and waybills for the syndicate.
