The Navi Mumbai police in Maharashtra claimed to have busted an inter-state racket of illegal sale of medicines meant for defense and ESIC hospitals and arrested nine people, an official said on May 21. The accused allegedly procured an anti-diabetic medicine, 50 mg manufactured by a company, for sale in the retail market by erasing its stamp mentioning 'for defence' and 'not for sale', Navi Mumbai Police Commissioner said in a release. The drug stock was exclusively meant for supply in defence and Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC)-run hospitals, the police said.
The investigation revealed that the medicine was procured from Pune, Mumbai and Navi Mumbai in Maharashtra and from other places like Amritsar (Punjab), Jammu, Delhi, Agra, Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh), Indore (Madhya Pradesh) and Patna (Bihar), he said. After erasing the declaration of 'defence supply' and 'not for…
