Racket manufacturing fake medicines busted, factory owner held
Racket manufacturing fake medicines busted, factory owner held
Dehradun: The owner of Dr Mittal Laboratories, which manufactured fake medicines by copying products of reputed pharmaceutical companies, was arrested on Friday in Uttarakhand.
Devi Dayal Gupta, who had been absconding for a long time, was finally tracked down and arrested in Dehradun by the Uttarakhand Special Task Force (STF), Senior Superintendent of Police (STF) Navneet Singh Bhullar said.
Gupta is a resident of Ashok Vihar Phase-2, Delhi. His arrest brings the total number of accused in the case to four, including the kingpin of the operation, he said.
On June 1, an accused, Santosh Kumar, was caught in the Selaqui area with a large quantity of fake packaging boxes, labels and QR codes of wrappers of medicines of leading companies such as Glenmark, Ipca Laboratories, Intas Pharma, Alkem Health Science, Dr Reddy’s Laboratories and Cadila Pharmaceuticals, the SSP said.
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