Lucknow: The Enforcement Directorate on Friday launched a coordinated crackdown on the alleged cough syrup syndicate, carrying out searches at 25 locations across six cities. Teams from the agency began raids early in the morning in Lucknow, Varanasi, Ahmedabad, Jaunpur, Saharanpur and Ranchi, targeting premises linked to key suspects.

In Lucknow, investigators also searched properties associated with accused Alok Singh.

The action comes even as the Krishna Nagar police arrested two more men connected to the racket that was busted on October 11. Police took into custody Suraj Mishra and Pritam Singh, both associates of Deepak Manwani, who had been arrested for allegedly running a large-scale black market operation involving codeine-based cough syrup, tablets, capsules and injections. An

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