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Uttarakhand Police busts racket manufacturing fake medicines, factory owner held
Dehradun, Jul 18 (PTI) The Uttarakhand Special Task Force (STF) on Friday arrested the owner of a factory in here that manufactured fake medicines by copying products of reputed pharmaceutical companies, officials said.
The accused, Devi Dayal Gupta, owner of Dr Mittal Laboratories, had been absconding for a long time and was arrested from Dehradun, Senior Superintendent of Police (STF) Navneet Singh Bhullar said.
Gupta is a resident of Ashok Vihar Phase-2 in Delhi. With his arrest, four members of the gang, including its kingpin, have been held so far, he said.
On June 1, an accused, Santosh Kumar, was caught in the Selaqui area with a large quantity of fake packaging boxes, labels and QR codes of wrappers of medicines of leading companies such as Glenmark, Ipca Laboratories, Intas Pharma, Alkem Health Science, Dr Reddy's Laboratories and Cadila Pharmaceuticals, the SSP said.
Later, the STF arrested the kingpin Naveen Bansal and another accused, Aditya Kala. During Bansal's interrogation, he revealed that fake medicines were made in Gupta's factory in Sahaspur area and sent to places including Haryana and Rajasthan, Bhullar said.
The fake drugs included Pantoprazole 40, Diclosin SP, Levocetirizine, Prochlorperazine, Amlodipine and Telmisartan tablets, the STF said. PTI DPT NSD OZ OZ
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July 18, 2025, 22:00 IST
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