Newswrap Hindustan, Araria Mon, 12 Aug 2024 06:14 PM
Sikti, a correspondent of the SSB 52nd Battalion, Ambari Border Outpost, arrested a smuggler with 73 bottles of codeine-laced cough syrup and a scooter during a nakabandi on Sunday night. The arrested smuggler with codeine cough syrup and scooter was handed over to the Sikti police. In this case, on the application of the Assistant Sub-Inspector of the border outpost, the smuggler caught in Sikti police station was sent to judicial custody in Araria jail. Sikti Station House Officer Narendra Kumar Prasad informed that Assistant Sub-Inspector Vishnu Pada Ghosh of the Ambari camp stated in the application given at Sikti police station that he was at the checkpoint near India-Nepal Pillar No. 156 with four soldiers of the camp when a scooter driver from Nepal arrived. During this time, the soldiers stationed at the checkpoint stopped and searched the scooter, seizing 73 bottles of prohibited codeine-laced cough syrup, each bottle being 100 ml. Upon interrogation, the businessman identified himself as Subhan Ali, son of Smile, a resident of Pipra Vijwar in Palasi Thana area, who was brought to Sikti police station along with the scooter bearing registration number BR 38 AH 65 28 and the cough syrup. The businessman caught in Sikti police station on the application of the Assistant Sub-Inspector of the camp has been sent to judicial custody in Araria.