Shillong Customs seized phensedyle from the truck canceled in onion bag

Shillong, Febuary 04: The Customs acting on specific intelligence, Customs Hqrs. Preventive Unit, Shillong detained one truck bearing Nagaland registration number near Thangsalai village on Shillong Bye Pass on 2nd February, 2017 and recovered 29,600 bottles of Phensedyl Cough Linctus.

From the same truck  codeine based medicinal preparation, concealed under
sacks of onion. Recovered Phensedyl cough syrup, 86 bags of onion and the truck
has been seized and a case registered under the provisions of NDPS Act, 1985.
Total value of seizure is Rs. 49, 92,752/-.

Preliminary investigation suggests that the consignment of Phensedyl was
loaded in Siliguri and was bound for Agartala for smuggling to Bangladesh where
phensedyl cough syrup is abused as an alternative narcotics drug.

There is very high demand of this cough syrup in Bangladesh and are sold at a premium and that is why unscrupulous elements adopt innovative modus operandi to transport phensedyl to Agartala. Further investigation has been launched. Said Dr P Borgohain Dy Commissioner preventive.