Fake ICU drugs seizure: Karnataka sets up 6-member SIT to probe statewide racket

The Karnataka Government has established a six-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe a statewide racket involving fake ICU drugs. Joint Commissioner of Police (West) C Vamshikrishna has been appointed as the head of the SIT, which will function under the supervision of the Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), Law and Order.

The team was constituted following the seizure of spurious and allegedly relabelled medicines worth Rs 4.91 crore from an unlicensed repacking and relabelling unit at a farmhouse near Bidadi, where lower-cost and generic medicines from other states were being refilled into new vials and relabelled to mimic expensive brands and imported drugs.

The SIT will investigate the distribution network and the hospitals and ICUs where the medicines may have been administered, and will periodically submit progress reports to the Director General and Inspector General of Police.

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