Spurious drugs seized in Panchkula (Himachal pradesh,india)

Panchkula: Following the arrest of Sandeep Kumar, a partner of the industry found manufacturing spurious drugs in the Industrial Area, the drug controller department seized huge quantity of medicines, energy drinks and raw material to manufacture medicines, including food colours, essence labels and machinery, here today.
A team of drug control department, headed by assistant drug controller GL Singhal, sealed the unit last Friday when the partners of the firm did not reach at the premises despite they were informed about the presence of officials outside the locked factory. Other team members were Rajinder Harna, SDCO Karnal; C P Aaggarwal, SDCO, Ambala: Lalit Goel, DCO, Yamuna Nagar & Parjinder Singh, DCO, Ambla.
The officials, however, after waiting for several hours, returned after sealing the unit that day.
Today a team of Rajasthan police, however, raided the house of Sandeep at Rajpura and arrested him for manufacturing the spurious drugs.
The police officials from Rajasthan said spurious drugs manufactured by Sandeep were found being sold at Ganga Nagar in the month of March. Following the investigations they raided the house of Sandeep and seized 35 boxes of amoxycilin from his house. However, Sandeep could not be arrested, said the police.
Sandeep, who was present on the spot, said he was a property dealer when his friend Sunny Papneja contacted him to start this business. Sunny was employed at a pharma unit at Panchkula he said. Thereafter both of them, after obtaining a licence under food product manufacturing from municipal council, started manufacturing here in a portion of plot No. 315 at the Industrial Area II.
Assistant drug controller Singhal said while the accused had no license to manufacture drugs, all medicines and other products were being manufactured under unhygienic conditions.