Police arrest one for packing cough syrup bottles with alcohol

Vadodara: Vadodara police have finally arrested one Hanuman Vagtaram Bishnoi in a case of packing bottles of cough syrup with alcohol. The accused had been evading the police since last five months.

The Vadodara police had raided a shed in the premises of Durga Real Estate in December 2021 based on a tip-off and found drums of ethanol (alcohol) inside the factory. The ethanol from the drums was being packed inside bottles of cough syrup in the factory. Following this, the police had also raided the warehouses of the factory in BIDC as well as Sayajipura and confiscated material worth Rs 1 crore.

A case in this matter had been filed against the racketeers at the Nandesari police station.