Jagran correspondent, Agra. The drug department team conducted investigation on the second day at Vardaan Medical Agency located in Fawwara. During the team's investigation, one and a half times more medicines were found than the purchase bill. Details of a dozen such suspected drugs have been recorded. The team will investigate on Saturday also. Samples of suspicious medicines including medicines of ESI hospital supply will be sent for testing.
Assistant Drug Commissioner Atul Upadhyay said that instructions were given from the headquarters to investigate Ankur Aggarwal's Vardaan Medical Agency located at Favwara Drug Market. During investigation on Thursday, 1300 antibiotic tablets supplied by Employees' State Insurance (ESI) Hospital were found and these were confiscated. Along with this, samples of iron tablets were taken and the team sealed them at night.
In the afternoon, Mainpuri's drug inspector Deepak Kumar arrived for investigation, the seal was opened and investigation was done. During investigation, a difference was found between the purchase bills of a dozen medicines and the stock; many medicines had purchase bills of four boxes while six boxes were found in the stock. Separate details of a dozen suspected drugs have been recorded. Investigation will be done on Saturday also, samples will be sent to check whether the medicines whose bill and stock are found to be fake are fake. The network supplying medicines to ESI Hospital is being scrutinized.
The team of the Medicines Department is busy investigating the network of selling medicines in the market which are given free to the patients in government hospitals including ESI Hospital. Assistant Drug Commissioner Atul Upadhyay said that during interrogation, Ankur Aggarwal, the director of Vardaan Medical Agency, told that he had ordered the medicine from outside, but he came back with the medicine.
When I opened the carton, I saw that it contained hospital supply medicines. These medicines were kept aside. From whom the medicines were purchased and who came to supply them is also being investigated. Shops in the medicine market remained closed for the second day also. There is illegal trade of hospital supply medicines in the fountain drug market, the hospital supply note for sale on these medicines is removed, this is also being investigated. Demand for high level investigation
District Agra Chemist Association President Ashu Sharma also arrived during the action. He says the fountain drug market is becoming infamous for fake and illegal drugs. Samples are taken but pass the test. There should be a high level inquiry into how this is possible. Police will take V warrant for Raja who is manufacturing fake branded medicines in Puducherry.
On August 22, the team of the Drug Department and the Special Task Force had raided Hey Maa Medico and Bansal Medical Agency and their associate firms in the fountain drug market. Samples of 28 medicines were taken from five firms and Golden Transport Company. Medicines worth Rs 72 crore were seized and confiscated. Of the 28 medicines whose samples were taken, purchase bills were found for most of them from Meenakshi Pharma, Shree Aman Pharma and Param House of Puducherry.
Meenakshi Pharma operator AK Rana was brought from Puducherry jail on V warrant by the Kotwali police and he was sent to the district jail on Monday. Raja, the kingpin who was manufacturing fake medicines of branded companies in Puducherry, has also been caught. Pharmaceutical companies have also filed a case against him. He will also be interrogated in the case of fake medicines sent to Agra. After AK Rana, the Kotwali police will also take a V warrant against Raja.