Nagpur Police Bust Interstate Counterfeit Medicine Racket

Three men were arrested by Nagpur rural police for their involvement in an interstate racket distributing counterfeit medicines. The ring supplied fake versions of widely prescribed drugs across multiple states. The operation was linked to a business that generated over Rs 15 crore using forged documents.

In a significant breakthrough, Nagpur rural police announced the arrest of three men on Tuesday, thereby busting an interstate racket involved in the distribution of counterfeit medicines.

Officials revealed that Vijay Shailendra Chaudhary was apprehended from Mira Road area in Thane, while Raman and Robin Taneja were caught in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh.

The cartel was active across Maharashtra and neighboring states such as Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, and Haryana. The accused supplied fake versions of widely prescribed drugs including Ciprofloxacin, Levofloxacin, Amoxicillin, Cefixime, and Azithromycin, under the guise of non-existent firms like 'Lab Evertouch Bio Remedies' and 'M/s Ginx Pharmakon LLP'. According to the police, the network operated through Chaudhary's business, Cabhis Generic House, and raked in over Rs 15 crore using forged documentation associated with shell or defunct companies. The scam came to the fore last December when the Maharashtra Food and Drugs Administration tested ciprofloxacin tablets from an establishment in Kalmeshwar, near Nagpur, and identified them as counterfeit.

(With inputs from agencies.)