Rs 1000 crore pharma doctor nexus: SC takes cognizance, to decide on making UCPMP mandatory - Video
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The messy issue of pharma companies bribing doctors with various freebies, once again reached the corridors of the Supreme Court yesterday, when during the hearing of the Uniform Code of Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices (UCPMP) matter, allusion was made to the recent IT raid on makers of Dolo 650, and incriminating records that allegedly revealed a payment of Rs 1000 crore freebies to doctors by Micro Labs.
The Supreme Court Thursday was told by an NGO, that has filed a plea demanding to make UCPMP mandatory, that the Central Board of Direct taxes has accused the Pharma company manufacturing popular Dolo tablets, an anti-inflammatory, fever reducer drug, of distributing Rs 1000 crore freebies to doctors for prescribing a dosage of its 650 mg tablets.
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