The Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) of Mumbai on Friday laid a trap and arrested a peddler involved in illegal supply of Codeine Phosphate-based cough syrups which are illegally used as drugs. The accused, identified as Asif Abdul Sattar Lakdiya alias Asif Takla, (44) was arrested from Pila house locality on Grant Road and 80 bottles of the syrup were recovered from him, states a report in India Today.

Further interrogation of Asif Takla led the ANC teams to a shop on Grant Road where they recovered 25 boxes containing Codeine Phosphate-based cough syrup bottles kept in ten gunny bags. A third location revealed by Takla, a shop in Pydhoni locality, was also raided a seizure of 35 boxes in 12 gunny bags containing the Codeine Phosphate-based cough syrups was made.