Staff Correspondent: Dhaka, Sept-19,
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police's (DMP) Detective Branch (DB) Lalbagh Division and the Department of Drugs conducted a joint drive and Mitford area in the city on Saturday and arrested three people.
A large quantity of
counterfeit medicines and creams of banned domestic and foreign brands were
recovered during the drive.
The arrestees were
identified as Faisal Ahmed, Sumon Chandra Mallick and Md. Liton Gazi.
Recovered fake
medicines and creams included 100 pieces i-pill, 160 pieces Super Gold Kosturi,
3000 pieces NAPROXEN PLUS-500+20mg, 350 pieces BETNOVATE-C, 20mg, 1000 pieces
Protobit-20mg, 115 boxes ENO, 400 pieces SANAGRA-100, 1500 pieces Periactin,
cream ১১০pieces
MOOV, 30 pieces Ring Guard, 500 container Whitfield, 250 pieces NIX Rubbing
Balm, 300 pieces Vix Cold Plus, 20 packet vapor, and gacojima 420 container.
Briefing reporters at
the DMP media center on Sunday, Joint Commissioner (DB-South) Md Mahbub Alam
Detective Lalbagh had
received information that some unscrupulous traders are selling counterfeit
medicines and creams of banned domestic and foreign brands in various shops of
the wholesale medicine market in Mitford of the capital. On the basis of such
information, with the help of the Department of Drugs, operations were
conducted at Medicine World and Aloknath Drug House on the ground floor of
Sureshwari Medicine Plaza in Mitford and Rafsan Pharmacy on the ground floor of
Haji Rani Medicine Market.
He said that since the
Mitford market in the capital is a wholesale market for medicines, the
counterfeit drug production and marketing cycle has been using the Mitford drug
market as camouflage to spread counterfeit medicine across the country. The
arrested suspects have been playing a key role in spreading counterfeit drugs
across the country as wholesalers in Mitford Market.
He added that the
detainees had been collecting medicines and creams of these domestic and
foreign brands from their associates and marketing them in the Mitford area in the
hope of making more profit.
A case was filed with Kotwali Police Station under Special Power Action against the arrested people.
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