India, Dec. 27 -- VARANASI The special investigation team (SIT) of Sonbhadra police on Friday started proceedings to attach assets worth around Rs.30 crore that were allegedly acquired by Bhola Prasad, the businessman father of absconding pharmaceutical dealer Shubham Jaiswal, through the smuggling of codeine-based cough syrups, police said in a communique.

The proceedings were taken up after a court issued a notice to this effect post the SIT submitting its report. In the note, Sonbhadra police said Prasad, who hails from Varanasi and owns Ranchi-based Shaili Traders, obtained his drug licence fraudulently by misleading the licensing authority in Jharkhand. Documents related to the warehouse and drug licence in the name of Shaili Trader...