Cough syrups worth over Rs 1 cr seized from Bhubaneswar & Cuttack, one arrested

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Published By : Sourav Prakash Das | August 1, 2025 10:15 AM

Bhubaneswar, Aug 1: In a joint operation, the Special Task Force (STF) of the Odisha Crime Branch and officials of the Drug Control Administration seized a huge cache of the cough syrups worth over Rs 1 crore in the twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack and arrested one person in this connection.

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Acting on specific intelligence inputs, the officials conducted multiple raids in the twin cities. The officials seized at least 56 cartons of cough syrups from a building in the New LIC Colony near Cuttack’s Badambadi and Mancheswar area of the capital city.

The officials also arrested one person, identified as Abhijit Sahu, from a village in the Tangi area in connection with the illegal cough syrup trade in the twin cities.

Sources from the STF reported that the illicit cough syrups were being smuggled into the twin cities from Bihar via a private courier service.

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