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The Delhi constabulary has busted a large interstate racket allegedly progressive successful the manufacture, repackaging and nationwide merchantability of spurious Schedule-H medicines, an authoritative said connected Sunday (December 14, 2025).
The constabulary person besides located a manufacturing portion and seized counterfeit drugs and earthy worldly worthy implicit ₹2.3 crore.
According to the police, 2 men — Gaurav Bhagat, a nonmigratory of Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad, and Shree Ram alias Vishal Gupta of northeast Delhi's Sabhapur — person been arrested successful the case.
"The cognition was carried retired by the Crime Branch. The accused were engaged successful producing and selling counterfeit versions of fashionable medicine ointments, including Betnovate-C and Clop-G, which are wide utilized for treating tegument infections, allergies and sports-related injuries," Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Aditya Gautam said successful a statement.
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The serviceman further said the spurious medicines were sold arsenic genuine branded products, posing a superior hazard to nationalist health.
Acting connected inputs, the Crime Branch squad archetypal conducted a raid astatine Teliwara successful Sadar Bazar, 1 of the country's largest wholesale pharmaceutical and cosmetic markets.
During the raid, a ample quantity of counterfeit Schedule-H ointments was recovered. Subsequent method investigation and follow-up quality led the squad to a manufacturing portion operating from Meerpur Hindu colony successful the Loni country of Ghaziabad.
"A hunt of the premises resulted successful the betterment of counterfeit medicines, immense quantities of earthy chemicals, packing material, bare tubes bearing forged marque labels and machinery utilized for mixing, filling and sealing ointments," the DCP said.
He further said cause inspectors from the North and Central Zones of Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, on with authorised representatives of the acrophobic pharmaceutical companies, conducted spot inspections and drew samples from the seized stock. They confirmed that the medicines were counterfeit and neither manufactured nor supplied by their companies.
The accused were besides recovered to beryllium operating without immoderate valid licence to manufacture, store oregon merchantability pharmaceutical products, helium added.
The constabulary said that an FIR was registered astatine the Crime Branch constabulary presumption connected December 12 nether assorted sections of the BNS and provisions of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act.
"The seized worldly included astir 1,200 tubes of spurious Betnovate-C ointment, implicit 2,700 tubes of fake Clop-G, much than 3,700 tubes of spurious Skin-Shine ointment, astir 22,000 bare fake Clop-G tubes, implicit 350 kilograms of semi-prepared ointment, too chemicals and manufacturing equipment," the DCP said.
He said further probe is underway to hint the full proviso chain, including wholesalers, distributors, transportation handlers and retailers progressive successful the amerciable trade.
