FDA Arrests Man for Selling Spurious 'Imported Drugs'

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of Haryana on Tuesday arrested a man for allegedly selling spurious "imported drugs" targeting gym-goers and fitness enthusiasts, the third such case of counterfeit drug sales in Gurugram in three years.

- Pawan Sharma

CHANDIGARH:

In 2023, FDA authorities in Gurugram arrested four individuals and seized counterfeit cancer medicines imported from Turkey.

A year later in 2024, FDA officials again uncovered a counterfeit medicines supply racket which was related to arthritis and originally manufactured abroad.

In the first case, all four arrested individuals are currently out on bail and the case is under trial, while in the second case, three arrested accused are still in jail, according to Amandeep Chauhan, drug control office of Gurugram, who has led the crackdown in all three cases.

The FDA officials said the accused, Hariom, was apprehended on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday from New Palam Vihar, Phase-2, near Little Angel school in Gurugram, following a raid by drug control authorities and local police.

Acting on intelligence inputs, officials seized 70 counterfeit "headon" injections (Somatropin for Injection IP-Recombinant Human Growth Hormone for Injection).