Bhubaneswar: The Drugs Control Department and Purighat police in Odisha’s Cuttack district seized spurious medicines worth Rs 2 lakh in Cuttack city and detained the owner of a pharmaceutical distributor firm in this connection on Monday.
According to reports the fake medicines were recovered from Sri Distributors located on Town Hall Road in Purighat police limits in Cuttack during a joint raid. The police have detained Bijay Agarwal, the owner of Sri Distributors, in this connection.
A preliminary investigation by the police and Drugs Control Department revealed that the fake drugs were used for treating stomach ailments. The spurious drug was supplied from other states and sold in Cuttack.
It is worth mentioning here that, in recent times, there has been an alarming rise in incidents of fake drugs sale in different regions of the state. Earlier, police had seized fake “Telma 40” and “Telma AM”, both drugs used for treating blood pressure problems, in Cuttack and two persons allegedly involved in supplying the spurious drugs to distributors in Cuttack were arrested from Bihar.
More recently, the Odisha Health and Family Welfare department has announced that it is sending a team to Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh to probe the supply of fake medicines from there to Odisha.
