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Medicines meant for the poor stolen, resold with fake labels: Delhi cops bust Rs 6 crore racket

The Indian Express·Sakshi Chand·25 days ago
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A case has been registered under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, police said, adding that efforts to identify additional members of the network and trace the full extent of the supply chain is also on. Stealing medicines of diabetes and hepatitis B meant to be given to the poor for free, putting fake labels on them, selling them in the black market in the Capital — an inter-state racket did it all to make money from life-saving medicines, Delhi Police said. Police arrested four men and dismantled the clandestine unit operating out of North Delhi ’s Mukherjee Nagar. The accused — identified as Manoj Kumar Jain (56), Raju Kumar (57), Vikram Singh alias Sunny (32), and Vatan (35) — were allegedly part of the organised network that diverted the medicines, tampered with their packaging, and resold them illegally across Delhi-NCR and several Northeastern states. According to officers, the operation was being run by Manoj.…

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