12 UP medical store owners booked over illegal cough syrup trade
An FIR has been registered against 12 medical store owners in Uttar Pradesh for allegedly running an illegal trade of cough syrup. A probe found that over 37 lakh bottles of codeine-based syrup worth around ₹57 crore were shown as sold through forged documents. The bottles were smuggled to states like Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal for illegal sale.