India, Nov. 2 -- A police team from the Zone 3 DCP's office in Thane arrested a 33-year-old resident of Kalyan on Saturday for possessing 400 bottles of illegal cough syrup. The accused, recently released on bail for a similar offence committed four months ago under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, was caught with the banned substance during a routine patrol.

The accused has been identified as Mohammed Mataab Anis. According to police officials, the special squad noticed Anis behaving suspiciously while on a motorcycle near Fortis Hospital in Kalyan (West). Upon interception, the team recovered around 400 bottles of Corex syrup from his possession.

Corex contains codeine phosphate, a controlled substance ...