A man was arrested allegedly with 7,900 bottles of cough syrup worth Rs 23.7 lakh in an operation carried out by the Anti Narcotics Cell of Mumbai police, an official said on Monday.

Acting on a tip off, the ANC's Ghatkopar unit laid a trap near a public toilet on Ghatkopar-Mankhurd Link Road and arrested Mukesh Rajaram Chaudhari, he said.