The Special Operations Group (SOG) of the Ahmedabad City Police has arrested two partners of Ahmedabad-based wholesale pharmaceuticals company on the charge of selling Codeine-based cough syrup (CBCS), a Schedule G drug, to at least one unlicensed firm outside the state. Codeine is an opioid medicine traditionally used in cough syrups to quiet severe coughing when other treatments fail, but its narcotic effects also make it susceptible to misuse and addiction. Cof-Trip cough syrup is manufactured by Three B Healthcare Ltd, Sirmour, Himachal Pradesh, and marketed by Aashka Formulation Pvt Ltd, Kalol, Gandhinagar, Gujarat. During the raid at the GPO, 34 packages, sent by Prama Healthcare, were found. Story continues below this adThe entire consignment was seized and taken to the SOG office in the Juhapura area of Ahmedabad, said the FIR.