Two arrested for making spurious medicines

NEW DELHI: The Crime Branch of Delhi Police have arrested two men for manufacturing and selling spurious drugs and medicines of different brands on a large scale for over two years.

Cops said the accused Bijender Singh (55) and Ashok Kumar (42) were nabbed near Ajmeri Gate side of New Delhi railway station on March 15.

Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Alok Kumar said that four cartons containing 39,300 Pan-d capsules were recovered from the car.

The accused failed to give satisfactory replies to the police about how they were in possession of the medicines and did not provide valid documents about storage, sale or distribution of the medicines.

Based on their revelations, a raid was conducted at their manufacturing unit at Balbir Vihar, Kirari, where cops recovered over one lakh capsules and tablets of different brands, including Pan-40, Pand, Pentacid DSR and Montec LC. Machine and raw materials used to make spurious drugs and a batch machine were also recovered from the site.

In another case, the Delhi Police Special Cell arrested two persons, Manohar Singh (31) and Fakruddin Rangrej (61), near Japanese Park in Rohini on March 15. One kg of fine quality heroin, worth over Rs four crores and two kg of Alprazolam worth about Rs 1.6 crore were recovered from them.