Mira Bhayandar: Duo lands in cop net for selling cough syrup to drug addicts
FPJ Photo
Sleuths of the Mira Bhayandar-Vasai Virar (MBVV) Police Commissionerate apprehended two people with a huge quantity of Chlorpheniramine Maleate (containing codeine phosphate) cough syrup from a transit accommodation building in Kashimira on Monday.
Acting on a tip-off, a team from the crime detection unit led by PSI Dhananjay Gaikwad, under the instructions of Senior Police Inspector Sanjay Hazare and ACP Vilas Sanap, swooped down on a tenement located in the transit camp near Lodha Aqua complex in Kashimira.
Two people, who have been identified as Ainil Hamid Mansoori (68) and Jamir Rashid Shaikh (44), both locals, were found to be in possession of the cough syrup bottles and Nitravet (10 mg) tablets valued at more than Rs 1 lakh.