Accused allegedly marketed ‘medicines’ worth ₹5 crore in 12 States
In a huge haul, officials of the Drug Control Administration (DCA) busted an inter-State spurious drug racket. They seized the spurious COVID-19 drug stocks, being manufactured for more than a year.
The Uttarakhand-based racket was unearthed in Andhra Pradesh, which reportedly has links to Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Punjab, Chhattisgarh and other States. Drugs worth about ₹5 crore have been allegedly marketed in the last one year, investigation officers of the DCA said.
The accused were manufacturing the Dewciff-AZ tablets (Cefixime, Azithromycin and Lactic Acid Bacillus tablets), Azidew-250 (Azithromycin tablets), FIXRAT-AZ and four other brands of tablets. The tablets were reportedly manufactured at Kancare Pharmaceuticals Private Limited, Roorke, Haridwar district, Uttarakhand, on the fictitious manufacturer’s name HPHIN Pharmaceuticals, which was not in existenc