Fake cancer drugs sold in vials…
On Tuesday, the Delhi Police busted a fake drug racket and arrested seven people. Two employees of a hospital in northwest Delhi's Rohini were involved in the manufacture and supply of fake cancer drugs.
The accused were filling anti-fungal medicine worth Rs. 100 into empty vials and selling them as "life-saving" cancer drugs all over the country, China, and the US for Rs. 1 to 3 lakh per vial.
The operation was running for over two years in which the accused sold more than 7,000 injections.
The Crime Branch busted the fake medicine gang after a three-month-long investigation which ended with similar raids at eight locations in Delhi and Gurugram.
The police recovered Rs. 89 lakh and $18,000 in cash along with Rs. 4 crore worth of fake cancer medicines from seven international and two Indian drug brands.
According to the police, the fake medicines were being manufactured in two flats in DLF Capital Greens, Moti Nagar by Viphil Jain, the mastermind of the whole operation. The fake cancer drugs were filled into drug vials here by another accused, Suraj Shah.
Three cap-sealing machines, 1 heat gun, and 197 empty vials were recovered from the two flats, senior police officer Shalini Singh said.
In a flat in Gurugram, another accused Neeraj Chauhan stored a large stock of fake cancer injection vials. As many as 137 fake cancer injection vials, 519 empty bottles, and 864 packaging boxes were seized from the flat.
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