Over 12,000 bottles of banned cough syrup seized in Bengal

The Border Security Force on Monday said it seized more than 12,000 bottles of banned cough syrup Phensedyl from a village in West Bengal.

The recovery was made early on Monday in North 24 Parganas district during a joint operation with the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officials, a BSF official said.

Acting on a tip-off, the BSF troopers conducted a raid in a house in Rasdui Dakshin Para village and seized several cartons of the cough syrup, the official said.

"... Around 6 a.m. on Monday, 12,840 bottles of Phensedyl were seized from the house of Imam Kazi, a resident of the village," Naveen Chouhan, Deputy Commandant in BSF's south Bengal frontier zone, said in a press release.

However, the smugglers could not be arrested as the house was vacant.

The BSF's south Bengal frontier has so far seized more than 1.39 lakh bottles of Phensedyl valued at nearly Rs 1.70 crore and arrested 23 Indian and three Bangladeshi smugglers during different raids in 2017.

--IANS

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