Man arrested with 39 boxes of codeine phosphate

Srinagar: A person was arrested today with 39 boxes of codeine phosphate from Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district, police said.

Majid Abbas Wani, a resident of Rakhi Shilwat in north Kashmir’s Sumbal area, was arrested from Sangam and 4,680 bottles of the drug was seized from his vehicle, they said.

He has been booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, police said.