Criminals take cough syrup as crime ‘booster’
Following confessions by snatching case suspects that they drank a particular brand of cough syrup to be intoxicated while committing the crimes, city police booked the owners of two medical shops in the city for selling it without prescription to such habitual offenders.
By : migrator
Update: 2018-03-23 19:01 GMT
Chennai
The police are aware that many of these criminals are ganja smokers, but it was during the interrogation of some suspects that they learned that a particular brand of cough syrup was among the preferred intoxicants.
“It helps them to commit offences without being bothered by anything else,” a police offcier told DTNext. Based on this, police checked at least two medical shops located on Arunachala Naicken street in Chintadripet and found a large stock of the brand of syrup there.
The owners confessed selling it without prescription because it was only a cough syrup. Three men owning the two medical shops were brought to the station, but were allowed to go on station bail after booking a case against them.
Experienced police officers in the citypolice noted that most of the criminals often consume alcohol or drugs before getting ready for crimes. “But a cough syrup being used as boost is a new trend” said a police officer.
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