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Delhi Police has unearthed a mill progressive successful manufacturing and repackaging spurious medicines and psychotropic substances adjacent Patna, an authoritative said connected Monday (February 23, 2026).
The enactment was taken during probe of an FIR registered nether the NDPS Act astatine the Crime Branch constabulary station, helium said.
Police said the breakthrough came days aft 2 akin amerciable pharmaceutical units were exposed successful Bihar.
Acting connected accusation gathered from erstwhile arrests and the interrogation of an accused identified arsenic Arun, a squad of the Crime Branch zeroed successful connected different suspect, Brijesh, who was allegedly moving an amerciable manufacturing and repackaging unit, a elder constabulary serviceman said.
The serviceman said Arun was earlier recovered coordinating the amerciable manufacture and organisation of opioids and operating a clandestine medicines unit. Based connected his disclosure, the squad with the section cause section raided the unit.
“It was recovered to beryllium operating without a valid manufacturing licence and successful the lack of mandatory method staff, including manufacturing and analytical chemists. Legal proceedings person been initiated arsenic per owed process,” helium added.
The squad person seized a monolithic haul of spurious tablets, syrups, machinery and packaging worldly from the premises.
The squad suspects that expired medicines were being repackaged and diverted to the marketplace done bogus aesculapian fronts astatine inflated prices, posing a superior hazard to nationalist health.
“With this operation, the squad has truthful acold arrested 9 persons successful the broader lawsuit and recovered implicit 13 kg of Tramadol pulverization and much than 500 grams of Alprazolam, among different psychotropic substances,” the serviceman said, adding efforts are underway to way down different members.
