India, May 6 -- The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB)'s Mumbai zonal unit has busted an interstate drug trafficking syndicate, seizing psychotropic substances worth Rs.1 crore and arresting one of its alleged members.

The consignments seized on Saturday included illegally diverted pharmaceutical drugs, comprising 169.7 kilograms of codeine syrup (in bottles), prescribed as a pain-cold reliever, along with 22,000 tablets of Alprazolam and 10,380 tablets of Nitrazepam, prescribed for managing anxiety disorders, according to agency sources. These seized consignments were illicitly sourced from other states via inland parcels for subsequent sale in Mumbai and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, as per NCB sources.

The consignments were allegedly s...