Dhaka, May 23 -- The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has observed that if codeine phosphate is used in any combination irrespective of the amount of codeine phosphate total combination has to be considered as a narcotics substance.

According to the apex court, Phensedyl falls under the category of narcotics since contains codeine phosphate.

A six-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique, passed the observation in the full text of a verdict.

In the verdict, the apex court also said, "In consideration of the matters discussed above, we are of the view that since codeine phosphate is a derivative of codeine, it has to be considered as scheduled narcotics. And any portion of the mixture of...