Another man held over fake medicine racket busted in Nagpur district
Nagpur: A man has been arrested from Saharanpur, UP in connection with a counterfeit medicine racket busted in March 2023. The official mentioned that a team from Kalmeshwar police station in Nagpur district recently held Raman Vijayakumar Taneja from UP's Saharanpur.
In March 2023, the Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had picked samples of 'ciprofloxacin' tablets from a state-run healthcare facility in Kalmeshwar tehsil, about 40 km from Nagpur, and sent them to a government lab in Mumbai for testing
The test report, which came in December 2023, showed that the tablets had no medicinal value as they had no trace of ciprofloxacin, which is prescribed to treat a number of bacterial infections, police had said.
Since the tablets had been supplied through the Nagpur-based Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Hospital, FDA officials early this year raided the hospital store and seized 21,600 tablets of the same brand.
According to PTI, Police said the tablet strips showed that they were manufactured by a Gujarat-based company, which didn't even exist.
Police had initially booked three persons - prime accused and Thane resident Vijay Shailendra Choudhary, Hemant Dhondiba Mule from Latur and Mihir Trivedi, a resident of Bhiwandi.
During the investigation, Taneja's name cropped up, the official said, adding that Choudhary was also arrested recently.
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