One arrested while making fake drugs
A man was held in the port city yesterday allegedly for producing and selling fake medicines.
The arrestee was Masud Rana, 32, of the city's Char Patharghata.
Detective Branch (DB) of police caught Masud along with fake drug items, worth Tk 50,000 while he was making fake medicines in a room beside a pharmacy around 3:00pm at a pharmacy in Char Patharghata, said Deputy Commissioner of DB Mohammad Maniruzzaman at a press briefing in CMP Headquarters yesterday.
Masud confessed before the press that he did the acts under the company name 'SAMA Marketing Company,' which has no existence.
He used to collect Calcium tablets from different medicine companies, adulterate and pack those into fake packets of medicine company Beximco Pharmaceuticals and then sell those to the retailers in the name of 'Vitamin tablets,' he said.
A case was filed with Karnaphuli Police Station under the Special Power Act in this regard.
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