The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday conducted searches in four districts of Uttar Pradesh and some locations in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad and Ranchi of Jharkhand in connection with the alleged illegal diversion of codeine-based cough syrup from India to Bangladesh by a syndicate.

The four UP districts where the searches were conducted are Lucknow , Varanasi, Jaunpur and Saharanpur.

The raids were held at 25 premises belonging to the syndicate’s alleged kingins Vibhor Rana, his brother Vishal Rana, Shubham Jaiswal and their associates who have been booked in criminal cases by the Uttar Pradesh Police and the Food Supply & Drug Administration (FSDA) in 31 districts of the state in the last two months. The palatial house in Ahmamau near the Lucknow-Sultanpur highway, where Alok

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