Wholesale Medicine Dealer Held For Running Fake Drug Unit

Agra, 4 Feb 2019: A local wholesale dealer of medicines has been arrested for running a fake drug manufacturing unit from his house in Deeksha Shree Bakey Bihari Dham here. The fake medicines were packed in original medicine blister packs of a known pharmaceutical company and sold in Agra and neighbouring districts. He is also said to own another fake drug manufacturing unit near Agra-Firozabad border.

A team of drug control department seized nearly Rs 3.5 lakh worth of fake drugs from his house and sent the samples for forensic examination. .” Sources said he was involved in the illegal business for over a decade.

The accused, identified as Haribabu, was arrested by Sikandra police and booked under IPC sections 275 (sale of adulterated drugs), 467 (forgery), 468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating), 419 (cheating by personation) and 420 (cheating). He was sent to jail on Monday.

Ajay Kaushal, SHO, Sikandra, “ A large number of fake drugs, machines used for manufacturing drugs, blister packs of drugs were recovered from Haribabu’s residence.”

Speaking with TOI, a drug inspector, Brijesh Yadav, said, “We laid a trap and contacted him on phone. After lot of persuasion, we finally unearthed his drug manufacturing unit at his apartment. After the raid, Haribabu used our phone conversation to implicate the team for asking for bribe. But all the evidence was against him and we handed him over to police.”

Haribabu, Yadav said, had a wholesale dealership licence of a Maharashtra-based drug marketing company which sold cough syrup, antibiotics, multivitamin and calcium tablets manufactured by a Himachal Pradesh-based pharmaceutical unit. The dealership was for Bhagwati complex at M G Road.The Times Of India