Overview
- Dismissed constable Alok Pratap Singh was detained in Lucknow after a lookout notice, with police saying he was intercepted en route to court and they will seek his remand.
- The Enforcement Directorate requested records and is coordinating with the STF for interrogation to examine suspected laundering in transactions pegged by officials in the ₹100‑crore range.
- Probe findings describe an organised diversion network using shell firms, forged invoices and fake wholesale licences to push codeine syrups across several states and into Bangladesh, with alleged kingpin Shubham Jaiswal believed to be abroad and his father arrested.
- Regulators escalated action with NDPS and BNS cases, filing FIRs against scores of stockists—an FSDA release cites 118 firms—and booking a Bareilly supplier after it failed to produce sale records for 62,687 bottles.
- FSDA licensing officers in Varanasi face internal scrutiny for allegedly clearing bogus wholesalers, while opposition leaders have urged central intervention and alleged official protection of the network.