Cough syrup case: Police file 39,000-page chargesheet detailing smugglers' misdeeds; Shubham's property to be confiscated:The police filed a charge sheet of 39 thousand pages.

News Topical, Digital Desk : In the cough syrup smuggling case registered at the Kotwali police station on November 15, 2025, the police completed the investigation after 142 days and filed a 39,000-page charge sheet. Police drug inspector Junab Ali filed a case against 26 people, including kingpin Shubham Jaiswal and his father Bhola Prasad, alleging smuggling from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Jharkhand. During the investigation, several other names emerged.

Police seized 45 crore rupees worth of illegal assets belonging to 30 people accused of cough syrup smuggling. ACP Vijay Pratap stated that the police will vigorously defend the cough syrup smugglers in court.

Currently, in the case filed in Ramnagar, the police are tightening the noose on the accused one by one. In response to a question, it was revealed that the 39,000-page account of the cough syrup smugglers' misdeeds contains factual details of each accused's actions.

Shubham Jaiswal declared a fugitive, order on the application of Rohaniya police

Additional Sessions Judge/Fast Track (14th Finance Commission) Manoj Kumar on Monday declared Shubham Jaiswal, the kingpin of the 2,000 crore cough syrup smuggling case, a fugitive for the second time. The court passed the order on a petition filed by the Rohaniya police. If Shubham is still unaccounted for, the police will confiscate his property on court orders.

The Police Commissionerate administration is already making efforts to secure the extradition of the kingpin hiding in Dubai by issuing a Red Corner Notice. Among the accused, the Rohaniya police have only one pending action against a cough syrup smuggler from Ghaziabad.

On November 19th of last year, Rohania police seized more than 500 cases of cough syrup hidden in a warehouse in a gym in Bhadwar and registered a case under the NDPS Act. The Rohania police investigation revealed the names of Azad Jaiswal, Mahesh Singh, Bhola Prasad (Shubham's father), Shivakant alias Shiva, Swapnil Kesari, Dinesh Yadav, Manish Yadav, and Shubham Yadav, against whom the police filed a charge sheet in court.

The police have put all the accused behind bars except Shubham. The Rohania police station in-charge stated that to tighten the noose around Shubham, the investigating officer, Inspector Dinesh Kumar Tripathi, continued the paperwork and took action against him, including issuing non-bailable warrants and proclamations of attachment.

In this regard, an application was filed in court on Monday to declare him a fugitive, and the court passed the order. In compliance with the court order, the police posted the proclamation at Shubham's residence and at a prominent location in the court. Special Public Prosecutors Sunil Kumar Singh and Arvind Srivastava represented the prosecution.

This is how the noose tightened on Shubham

On November 19, 2025, Rohania police registered a case of recovery of more than 500 boxes of cough syrup.
Non-bailable warrant was issued on January 22.
On February 24, a pre-seizure proclamation notice was issued.
On February 26, the police pasted the notice at a conspicuous place.
Advertisements were published in various newspapers on 27 February.
On March 30, the court gave him the last opportunity to appear in court.
On April 1, Kotwali police registered a case for not appearing in the court.
On April 5, while hearing the police application, the court declared him a fugitive.