Jagran correspondent, Varanasi. Varanasi Police on Tuesday arrested three accused close to Shubham Jaiswal, the kingpin of cough syrup smuggling worth Rs 2,000 crore, from Ganeshpur located in Mohana of Siddharthnagar near Nepal border.
These include Azamgarh resident Vikas Singh Narve and Varanasi resident Akash Pathak, the director of fake pharmaceutical company Med Remedy Lifecare Private Limited. The police had announced a reward of Rs 50,000 each on both of them. The third accused Ankit Srivastava is from Jaunpur.
Lookout notice had been issued against the three arrested accused. All three had reached the border to escape to Nepal, but were caught due to the vigilance of the SIT. Police is bringing all three to Varanasi. After interrogation, he will be presented in the court on Wednesday.
DCP Crime Saravanan T. said that cases are registered against Vikas Singh Narve in Varanasi, Jaunpur and Azamgarh. He came to his in-laws' house in Ganeshpur on 22 January and was planning to escape to Nepal from here.
It was Vikas who had introduced one of the main accused, Amit Tata and retired constable Alok Singh, to Shubham Jaiswal, so that the network of cough syrup smuggling could be spread to foreign countries.
Amit Tata and Alok have already been arrested. Sonbhadra police had caught two containers filled with cough syrup vials on October 18 last year.
Investigation of the case revealed that cough syrup was being sent from Ghaziabad to Ranchi, Jharkhand. Investigation revealed that the network of cough syrup smuggling extended not only to Uttar Pradesh but also to Bihar, Jharkhand, Bengal, Bangladesh and Nepal. As soon as his name came up in the case, Shubham fled to Dubai with his family.
Varanasi Police has announced a reward of Rs 50 thousand and Sonbhadra Police has announced a reward of Rs 25 thousand against him.
Junab Ali, inspector of the drug department in Varanasi, registered a case against Shubham, his father Bhola Prasad Jaiswal and 28 people at Kotwali police station on 19 November. Varanasi Police issued a look out notice against Shubham, Vikas Singh Narve, Akash Pathak, besides Divesh Jaiswal, Amit Jaiswal and Ankit Srivastava.
Shubham, Divesh and Amit are still out of the reach of the police. DCP Gaurav Banswal, head of the SIT team, said that Vikas Singh was the operator of Devnath Pharmacy. He did illegal business worth about Rs 15 crore by purchasing 5.13 lakh vials of cough syrup containing codeine from the Ranchi-based firm Shaili Traders of Shubham's father Bhola Prasad Jaiswal.
His role was to manage the black money earned from the entire network. During investigation, police also found evidence of Vikas going to Dubai several times.
For Akash Pathak's fake pharmaceutical company, kingpin Shubham Jaiswal had issued a competency certificate with his signature, on the basis of which the license was obtained. Shubham Jaiswal also held the post of director in Akash's company.
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