Mumbai: Repeat offenders sentenced to 15 years in drugs case

A 55-year-old repeat offender, Shakir Mohammad Hussain Retiwala, has been sentenced to 15 years of rigorous imprisonment and fined Rs 1 lakh for possessing over 7,000 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup. The cloth merchant was arrested in February 2020 by the Anti-Narcotics Cell during a patrolling operation in Chembur. The seizure, valued at approximately Rs 14.