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The Delhi Police connected Sunday arrested six persons allegedly progressive successful an organised interstate web engaged successful the manufacture, storage and organisation of counterfeit life-saving Schedule H medicines. The cognition besides led to the vulnerability of a parallel racket involving fictitious GST firms utilized to make fake invoices and launder proceeds from the amerciable trade. Officials of the Crime Branch said the cyber compartment dismantled the syndicate pursuing a raid conducted connected March 11 astatine Bihari Colony successful Shahdara. Over 1.2 lakh counterfeit tablets and capsules were seized, and an amerciable pharmaceutical manufacturing unit was busted. Investigators besides uncovered a fake GST billing network estimated astatine astir ₹50 crore. “During the raid, Nikhil Arora, alias Sunny, who was operating a wholesale aesculapian shop, Baba Shyam Medicos, in Bhagirathi Palace, was arrested. The seized drugs included commonly prescribed medicines for diabetes, hypertension, infections, liver disorders and inflammation, posing a superior nationalist wellness hazard erstwhile counterfeited,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Aditya Gautam. Police said drug manufacturers and regulatory authorities person confirmed that the seized medicines are counterfeit. Police said the accused utilized fake GST firms to contented invoices and facilitate the proviso of counterfeit medicines. “These entities existed lone connected insubstantial and were created to conceal the existent concern operations, evade taxation and regulatory scrutiny while lending evident legitimacy to amerciable transactions,” the DCP informed. Payments and proviso chains were routed done these entities to disguise the root and destination of spurious medicines, he added. Two of the accused, identified arsenic Shahrukh and Rahul, allegedly operated the GST racket done messaging platforms, Telegram and WhatsApp, providing ready-made firms and invoices. Analysis of their mobile information revealed details of aggregate ammunition firms, fake invoices amounting to astatine slightest ₹50 crore, and links to beneficiaries crossed several states. “This GST racket acted arsenic the fiscal backbone of the counterfeit medicine network,” Mr. Gautam said. Police identified the other arrested persons as Shivam Tyagi, Mayank Aggarwal and Mohit Sharma, the suppliers; and Shahrukh and Rahul who provided fake GST firms. A lawsuit has been registered against each six persons under sections 318(4) (cheating), 336 (forgery), 340 (forging document), 275 (sale of harmful substance) and 61(2) (criminal conspiracy) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, various sections of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act and the Trade Marks Act. Additionally, acting on disclosures by Sharma, the constabulary conducted a subsequent raid connected an amerciable pharmaceutical manufacturing unit successful Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh. The facility, dispersed implicit about 1,000 quadrate yards, was allegedly operated by Mohd. Aqdas Siddiqui, who is connected the run. Police said he is also involved successful large-scale accumulation of counterfeit medicines.
Published - April 06, 2026 01:38 americium IST
