In an incident that would make Pablo Escobar turn in his grave and facepalm himself unbelievably hard, Jammu & Kashmir police recovered an insane number of bottles of cough syrup, hidden in a tunnel.

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A police party in Tulkhan village apprehended two people after stopping and searching them on a routine drive. The reason? Both of them were carrying 15 bottles of prescription-strength cough syrup between the two of them, with no legitimate cause.

Police party at Tulkhan crossing apprehended two persons in possession of 15 Codeine bottles. Interrogation led to the search at a location in Tulkhan Bijbehara (Anantnag district from where 1715 bottles of Codeine were recovered: Jammu and Kashmir Police pic.twitter.com/gNs8zebCuS

— ANI (@ANI April 7, 2021

For people who have been living under a rock all these years full strengthened cough syrup, also known as codeine, is highly addictive, and highly intoxicating, and is often used as a substitute for drugs and alcohol. Consuming high dosages of codeine concentrate leads to a solid high, that often lasts for hours.

That is the reason why most over the counter cough syrups are diluted by pharmaceutical companies. This is also the reason why pharmaceutical companies warn against driving or operating heavy machinery after having regular dosage of cough syrup.

Upon interrogating the two apprehended men, Jammu & Kashmir Police were led to a rudimentarily made tunnel in Tulkhan Bijbehara, from where they recovered 1715 bottles of prescription-strength bottles.

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On one hand, we have a city like Mumbai, which has been dubbed as the drug capital of India by the NCB, and then, on the other, we have the district of Anantnag in Jammu & Kashmir, which has to depend on cough syrup, to get their buzz on. ‘Saste Nashe’ indeed.

All jokes aside, Anantnag has been infamous for being a district where drug trafficking is rampant. Local newspapers often run reports of police seizing unbelievable quantities of narcotics.

Upon reading this people on Twitter, had some hilarious reactions.

Udta Kashmir

— John Wick (@udbeast April 7, 2021

Meanwhile a user from Bihar -

Every nook and corner of Bihar you will find these bottles

— rahul shankar roy (@rahulsroy95 April 7, 2021

In punjab nashedi often buy 6-7 syrup and drink it in one go there are strict restrictions on buyinh from chemist.

— Suraj Gupta (@Suraj__leo April 7, 2021

Hmmm….

Deliberate game plan of known external forces.

— ashesh kumar🇮🇳 (@ashesh065 April 7, 2021

Not gonna lie, from the pictures it does seem like it.

First look I thought some bomb or something like cocaine or something. This is just cough syrup.

— Sajinu N (@sajinu April 7, 2021

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