UP STF arrests brothers Abhishek, Shubham in cough syrup syndicate.

• UP STF arrested brothers Abhishek and Shubham Sharma in Lucknow for their involvement in a codeine-based cough syrup trafficking syndicate.
• The arrested brothers, originally from Saharanpur, were linked to Vishal and Vibhor Rana's Fancidil cough syrup syndicate.
• Abhishek, a former super distributor for Abbott in New Delhi, used fake firms to procure cough syrup for drug traffickers.
• The syndicate allegedly trafficked the cough syrup to Bangladesh via Bihar, Jharkhand, and West Bengal, with a CA helping create fake firms.
• An SIT identified 12 conspirators in the codeine-based cough syrup case, including the arrested brothers and other key individuals.

Why It Matters: Major arrests disrupt a large-scale cough syrup drug trafficking syndicate.