Patna: Spurious drugs from Patna have made inroads into Calcutta's market.
The Bihar drug control administration has stumbled upon this revelation after it got a complaint from Bengal's drug control administration department. According to the Bihar authorities, the Bengal drug control administration had got drug samples tested from Gupta Enterprises (situated in Calcutta's Burrabazar locality). The medcines were sourced from Yashraj Enterprises in Patna.
The tests revealed the medicines to be spurious.
"We lodged an FIR against the owner of Yashraj Enterprises at Pirbahore police station on Saturday on the basis of the complaint received from Bengal's drug control administration department," said a Bihar drug inspector. "The owner has been arrested. As of now, we don't know this spurious drug racket chain's link to other people and other cities in the loop because the owner of Yashraj Enterprises has not revealed from where he had purchased the drugs."
The drug inspectors who were involved in carrying out the operation at Yashraj Enterprises on Saturday included Rajesh Kumar Sinha, Devendra Kumar Ram, Sandip Sah and Pankaj Verma.
According to sources, the the Calcutta-based pharmaceutical agency had bought from Yashraj Enterprises Udiliv 300mg tablets and Chymoral tablets (used for pain relief).
On April 5, fake drugs worth around Rs 25 lakh were recovered from an Ashok Nagar-based rented accommodation. According to drug administration officials, the fake drug business was operational at that place since 2008.
But the state drug control department could not find out from where the kingpin of the business, Sanjay Kumar, was sourcing the medicines and which shops he was supplying the medicines to after using fake wrappers of pharmaceutical big bramds such as Abbott Healthcare Private Limited, Alkem Laboratories, Dr Reddy's Laboratories and Candid Pharmaceuticals.
The officials involved in the raid said they found drugs without labels and fake wrappers of the pharma companies which had fake holograms printed on them.
