Archive · 8 Oct 2026
Gujarat Raids Two Medical Stores, Seizes 18,316 Tablets
Officials in Surat searched two medical stores on Wednesday.
They were checking reports that medicines were being sold without doctors’ prescriptions.
The medicines can be misused to make people feel intoxicated.
The officials seized 18,316 tablets and three bottles of codeine syrup.
They said the seized items were worth about Rs 2.75 lakh.
The Food and Drugs Department is now investigating the medicines.
The stores’ owners and operators have not been described as guilty.
Police said legal action could follow if illegal storage or sales are confirmed.
Surat’s Special Operations Group and the Food and Drugs Department raided two medical stores in the Salabatpura-Mandarwaja area on Wednesday.
Officials seized 18,316 tablets and three bottles of codeine syrup, with the recovered stock valued at Rs 2,75,068.
Police said the stores were suspected of selling medicines that could be misused for intoxication without doctors’ prescriptions.
The Food and Drugs Department said it found stocks allegedly kept in violation of regulations and has begun further investigation.
Police said legal action may follow if the medicines are found to have been kept or sold illegally.
- Who
- Surat City’s Special Operations Group and the Food and Drugs Department; the two stores were Smit Sai and Daruwala Shivshakti.
- What
- Officials raided the stores and seized 18,316 tablets and three bottles of codeine syrup.
- When
- Wednesday; the article does not specify a date.
- Where
- Halpati Colony on the 80-foot road in the Salabatpura-Mandarwaja area of Surat, Gujarat.
- Why
- Police were investigating information that medicines liable to be misused for intoxication were being sold without prescriptions and in violation of regulations.
- Stores raided
- Smit Sai and Daruwala Shivshakti
- Location
- Halpati Colony, Salabatpura-Mandarwaja area, Surat
- Tablets seized
- 18,316
- Codeine syrup seized
- Three bottles
- Estimated value
- Rs 2,75,068
- Investigation
- The Food and Drugs Department has begun further investigation into the recovered stock.
- Possible next step
- Police said legal action may be taken if illegal storage or sales are established.