In a major crackdown on New Delhi, 47 accused arrested in an elaborate fake pharmacy registration racket have been busted by police. Operation was carried out by the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) of Delhi government which exposed one of the biggest network of pharmacist frauds who were giving registry to unqualified persons which posed serious threat to the public health. A racket of falsifying the documents and swindling the issuing official records to issue pharmacy licenses for unqualified persons, which posed great risk to citizens health.
The scam was run by making fake documents and falsifying the records of licensed pharmacies to issue pharmaceutical licenses without the actual qualifications.
ACB probe said that the fraud has been going on for a long time, a multi dimensional story involving government officials middlemen and pharmacy owners. The accused persons who were nabbed belong to a syndicate that is accused of conspiring to forge registration certificates and give unskilled people access to medical stores.
Well, the fraud is at such scale that it threatens lives of people who use pharmacies for their daily medication and for healthcare advise. Fraud registrations getting these fraudulent ot qualifications were totally unqualified (and made up) meaning they lack the knowledge and skill to deal with pharmaceuticals, which in theory should have prevented them from dispensing errors, incorrect dose and the sale of sub-standard or counterfeit drugs.
The ACID turned its attention to the quash after receiving numerous complaints from the general public and genuine pharmacy owners who had good reason in thinking licenses were fraudulent. The ACB carried out comprehensive surveillance and developed the evidence that resulted in simultaneous raids, arrests.
Those arrested are charged with forgery, fraud, corruption and criminal conspiracy to the highest. The ACB is still in the process of investigating the full gamut of racket, its perpetrators and any others who may have been brought in. Two officials who were also looking into the matter said police investigation is in its preliminary stages and higher ranks are believed to be involved, also including other parts of the city with similar rackets.
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This has rocked the healthcare scene in New Delhi with a call that stringent regime,prudl gyani regullatiomn must come on to control these coercive chaos every soon. The Delhi government has promised that it will take punitive action to ensure such fraudulent activities do not take place again in future and absolute integrity in pharmacy registration.
This action highlights the dedication of the Anti-Corruption Branch to crackdown on corruption and safeguard public health. The officials have urged people to look out and inform the authorities about such illicit activities so that such incidents do not happen again.
