New Delhi, May 08: The Delhi police has busted an inter-state racket selling spurious life-saving drugs, unearthed an illegal manufacturing unit and seized Rs. 6 crore worth medicines along with arrest of four accused including a kingpin operating from Mukherjee Nagar, Delhi.
The Crime Branch of Delhi Police said that the racket involved diversion of government-supplied medicines from Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, and were engaged in re-labelling and illegal resale of drugs in Delhi and beyond.
All accused persons are presently in custody. Further investigation is progress, and more arrests, recoveries and identification of other associates involved in the racket are likely," said the Crime Branch.
The medicines recovered include 20,000 loose tablets (5.87 kg) of cefixime 200 mg; 18,000 tablets of aceclofenac + serratiopeptidase + paracetamol; 10,000 tablets (2.9 kg) of orange colour loose tablets; 9,000 tablets of ursodeoxycholic acid tablets IP 300mg; 7,900 tablets of tenofavir alafenamide tablets IP 25mg; 7,800 capsules of lenvatinib capsules IP 4mg, among others.
Apart from various other spurious medicines and cosmetic goods, lifesaving and general drugs including albucel human albumin to restore blood volume, lenvacast 4 for long-term treatment of asthma, abhayrab rabies vaccine for prevention of rabies, Lenvatol to treat certain cancers, snake venom antiserum for treatment of snake bite, hepatitis B vaccine, vitamin D3, among others were recovered from the possession and control of accused persons.
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