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Indian man detained for month as perfume mistaken for opium in US
short by Ankit Tiwari / on Saturday, 4 October, 2025
An Indian man, identified as Kapil Raghu, was detained for four weeks after police mistook a perfume bottle in his car as an illegal drug, The Guardian reported. Raghu was stopped by the police in Benton, Arkansas, on May 3 for a minor traffic violation when they found a perfume bottle labelled 'Opium' and assumed it contained the banned narcotic.
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