New Delhi:
Delhi Police on Thursday claimed to have arrested 10 people allegedly involved in manufacturing and selling fake drugs used, among other things, as painkillers and antibiotics in the National Capital Region.
Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) Sanjay Bhatia said that police have busted networks involved in the racket in the last four weeks.
Giving details of the operation, Mr. Bhatia said that in view of a sharp increase in the supply of counterfeit medicines in the retail markets in Delhi, three teams of the Crime Branch were tasked to develop intelligence on such illegal rackets operating in Delhi NCR.
During a search of a vehicle under Tilak Bridge, huge quantities of counterfeit Ultracet, Amaryl 1M, Gluconorm and Defcort tablets were seized and two people were arrested.
During interrogation, one of them admitted that the drugs were counterfeit and named two other suppliers, who were also arrested, the ACS said.
The officer said that more than 44,500 tablets of Ultracet, Amaryl 1M, Gluconorm and Defcort-6 were seized from them.
Another person was arrested in Uttam Nagar and 730 tablets of the same brands were seized from him, a police officer said.
A third team arrested three more people from different places in the trans-Yamuna region and seized at least 57,000 fake Ultracet tablets, he added.
Police said the counterfeit drugs posed a security risk and hence a case under Sections 420, 328, 120B of the IPC and 63 and 65 of the Copyright Act was registered.
Another police officer said that during the investigation, it was discovered that the fake Ultracet tablets were being manufactured at a factory in Mandi, Himachal Pradesh. The unit owner and his employee have been arrested, he said.
These tablets were transported from Mandi to Haryana's Panipat and later to Delhi, he said.
The official added that the fake tablets were sold to a medical store in Delhi's Geeta Colony.
During further investigation, raids were conducted in Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh and large quantities of fake tablets were seized.
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