Police arrested factory owner for manufacturing spurious medicines

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Sat, Mar 17, 2018, 10:35 PM

Police arrested factory owner for manufacturing spurious medicines

New Delhi, March 17: The Delhi Police arrested a factory owner and his associate on the charge of manufacturing spurious medicines here, police said on Saturday.

Police said the accused have been identified as Ashok Kumar, 42, who runs a factory manufacturing dye cutting and pasting of medicine strips, and his associate Bijender Singh, 55.

Kumar and Singh are residents of East Delhi's Pandav Nagar and Haryana's Faridabad, respectively.

"Heavy quantity of spurious drugs and medicines, instrument and 39,300 capsules of PAN-D have been recovered from them," Joint Commissioner of Police Alok Kumar said.

According to the police, the two were arrested on Thursday night when they were going to supply spurious drugs at Ajmeri Gate, near New Delhi Railway Station.

"They were carrying spurious drugs in an ECO van which was intercepted by a raiding team. During questioning, they failed to provide satisfactory reply nor did they produce any valid documents," the officer said.