NAGPUR: The 1,200-page chargesheet within the spurious medication provide case, submitted by rural police on September 20, has revealed startling details. The antibiotics distributed to the govt. hospitals have been nothing however talcum powder blended with starch, made in a Haridwar-based laboratory of veterinary medicines.
Other than the stunning provide of faux medication to govt hospitals, the racketeers additionally rampantly used hawala channels to switch crores of rupees from Mumbai to Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh.The money was transferred to the racketeers to acquire faux medicines, which have been equipped throughout India, together with to hospitals in Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, and Maharashtra.
The stunning case had surfaced in December final yr after drug inspector Nitin Bhandarkar discovered that the antibiotics equipped to the agricultural hospital at Kalmeshwar have been faux. The drug inspector of Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) had registered an offence towards the suppliers and distributors at Kalmeshwar police station final yr. The companies have been additionally blacklisted by the civil surgeon’s workplace in follow-up motion. TOI had then highlighted the motion taken by the FDA officers.
The case was taken up for particular probe by Rural SP Harssh A Poddar, who handed investigation over to IPS officer Anil Mhaske, posted as SDPO Saoner. After Nagpur rural police investigation began revealing stunning details, comparable instances have been registered at Wardha, Nanded, Thane, and elsewhere in Maharashtra towards the racketeers.
Mhaske stated the offences have been initially registered towards Hemant Muley, who had participated within the tender to produce medicines to govt hospitals at Nagpur. Other than Muley, offences have been additionally registered towards Mihir Trivedi and Vijay Chaudhury. It’s learnt that Chaudhury was already in jail in one other comparable fraud case when he was taken into custody by the agricultural police.
Chaudhury’s interrogation prompted rural police to undertake an operation in Haryana, after he named one Gagansingh because the provider of the spurious medication. “We had gone to Haryana to raid the situation and located a salon there,” stated Mhaske, including that Chaudhury later additionally named Saharanpur-based Robin Taneja alias Himanshu and Raman Taneja.
“We reached the Haridwar veterinary laboratory of Amit Dhiman after the Taneja brothers named him. Dhiman was in jail after being arrested by Uttarakhand STF. He was later arrested in our case too,” stated Mhaske, including that the racketeers’ financial institution particulars and transactions confirmed multi-crore dealings.
