Imphal, Sept. 6 -- Security forces and police have arrested a man and a woman and recovered psychotropic substances, bottles of Codeine Phosphate, an item banned in Manipur to prevent drug addicts from acquiring it easily.

Some hardcore drug addicts use this banned cough syrup as a temporary substitute for hard drugs, the police reported on Saturday.

Acting sternly against the drug menace and its propagators, theanti-drugsmuggling unit of the Manipur Police arrested one Asem Somanda Singh (40), a resident of Khekman Makha Leikai under Thoubal-PS, Thoubal district, on Friday.

He was captured from his residence along with contraband items, including three boxes of SAMPFX +, two boxes of SPAS-TRASCEN-PLUS, 15 TUSSREX-TR cough syrup bottle...