Pune: Parvati Police Bust Illegal Sale of Prescription Drugs for Addiction; Four Booked, Including Drug Company Partner

Pune:

As per the rules, medicines that can lead to intoxication and that are dangerous to take cannot be generally sold without a doctor’s prescription. In spite of that, a shocking incident of ordering these medicines in the name of other medical stores and selling them illegally for addiction has come to light. In this case, the Parvati police registered a case against four people, including the partner of the manufacturing drug company.

Shamal Mahindrakar, a drug inspector from the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Pune, has filed a complaint regarding it at Parvati police station. Accordingly, police registered a case against Sameer Hameed Shaikh (a resident of Solapur), Samreen Sameer Shaikh (a resident of Kondhwa), Dhirendra Dinesh Prasadsingh, and Rajeev Vasantlal Dedhia (both residents of Bhiwandi).

As per the police information, Viren Savla has a drugstore named ‘Maharashtra Agency’ in the Parvati area. A few days ago, he received a bill for the purchase of codeine containing Lykarex T Syrup. He then informed Balaji Pharma Care, a drug manufacturing company in Bhiwandi, through which he received a bill, through an e-mail that he had not placed an order for this medicine.

Despite that, he again received an order for the purchase of the same medicine a few days later. After that, Viren Savla suspected that the medicine, which cannot be sold without a doctor’s prescription, was being billed in his name repeatedly. Accordingly, he complained to the Food and Drug Department, Pune, regarding the incident.

After that, when the FDA enquired at Balaji Pharma Care in Bhiwandi, they were told that the purchase was made by a person named Sameer Shaikh in the name of Maharashtra Agency. They also were told that Sameer Shaikh has a National Medico medicine store in Kondhwa. However, drug inspectors did not find any such medical shop in Kondhwa in their investigation.

After that, Drug Inspector Bankar from Thane office of Food and Drug Department visited Balaji Pharma Care in Bhiwandi. At that time, Dhirendra Prasadsingh, a partner of the company, showed the copy of the order sent by Sameer Shaikh. In it, Bankar found that Shaikh had given this order putting a fake stamp of the plaintiff’s medical store. Further, he also found that the accused also received medicines from the warehouse of the courier without consent.

In the subsequent investigation, police discovered that the Balaji Pharma Care supplied these medicines worth Rs 2 lakh 89 thousand 800 to the plaintiff in connivance with Sameer Shaikh for addiction. Accordingly, the police registered a case against Sameer Shaikh and his wife, Samreen Shaikh, along with two partners of the Balaji Pharma Care company. Police Sub-Inspector Sachin Pawar is conducting further investigation in this case.