Fake pharmacy registration racket busted, Delhi Pharmacy Council former employee, 46 others arrested
Racket manufacturing fake medicines busted, factory owner held
New Delhi: In a major crackdown, the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) has busted a fake pharmacy registration racket and arrested a former employee of the Delhi Pharmacy Council (DPC) and 46 others, an official said on Wednesday.
The accused allegedly facilitated fraudulent registration of unqualified individuals as pharmacists using forged documents, according to an ACB statement.
According to PTI report, Joint Commissioner of Police (ACB) Madhur Verma said in a statement, “The scam was orchestrated by Kuldeep Singh, former registrar at DPC, in collaboration with a private firm which was hired to conduct online registrations of the pharmacists. However, the company was hired without any tendering process and in violation of the laid down procedures.”
“The investigation revealed that bribes were taken through a middleman named Sanjay, who coordinated between DPC officials and various diploma colleges,” Verma said.
The racket enabled applicants to upload fake certificates which were then falsely verified by complicit employees of pharmacy institutes, read the statement.
Some applicants even submitted different sets of documents for multiple registrations, all of which were approved without scrutiny. False verification emails were sent from fabricated addresses to validate counterfeit credentials, it read.
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