Youth Arrested for Selling Cough Syrup to Minors

CODIMAXX cough syrup (Chlorpheniramine Maleate & Codeine Phosphate syrup) – 90 Bottles and U-LINTUS Antitussive Cough Syrup (Chlorpheniramine Maleate & Codeine Phosphate syrup) – 64 Bottles total 154 cough syrup bottles seized.

Hyderabad, Aug 8 (Maxim News): A 26-year old pharmacy store owner from Himayatnagar was arrested here for allegedly selling cough syrups to minors and vagabounds without doctor’s prescription.

Police along with drug inspector raided Agarwal’s Pharmacy near Darussalam and apprehended Jayanth Agarwal, and seized CODIMAXX cough syrup (Chlorpheniramine Maleate & Codeine Phosphate syrup) – 90 Bottles and U-LINTUS Antitussive Cough Syrup (Chlorpheniramine Maleate & Codeine Phosphate syrup) – 64 Bottles total 154 cough syrup bottles.

It is to mention here that the above drugs have addiction effect due to which many minors and vagabonds are addicted to them and consuming the syrup. By consuming the syrup, the person will be in some trance and hyper tipsiness, which is endanger to the life of the consumer. This habit of consuming the syrup leading to criminal activities.

The raid and arrest were made under the supervision of P.Radhakishan Rao, Dy.Commissioner of Police, Commissioner’s Task Force, Hyderabad by Mohd Abdul Javeed, Inspector of Police, Commissioner’s Task Force, Central Zone, and SIs T. Sreedhar, Mohd Shahnawaz Shafi and K. Srinivasulu and staff of Central Zone Task Force Team, Hyderabad. (Maxim News)

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