The drug inspectors seized medicine that was sold as Ayurvedic medicine but actually was grinded allopathic medicine. [break]
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“The shop is illegal,” said Prakash Sharma, one of the pharmacy inspectors of the DDA who raided the shop. According to Article 10 of the Drug Act 2035, any shop should get registered with the DDA in order to do transact drug.
The shop was set up under a tent.
Sharma said that the DDA has warned the Indian national not to run such shop, or face action.
Sangeeta Rijal
He said shops selling fake medicine under the name of Ayurvedic medicine hace entered core parts of the city after DDA intensified the search of such illegal temporary mobile shops along ring road. “If the person is found running the shop elsewhere, he will be jailed,” Sharma added.
About a dozen such peopled have been jailed so far. Such shopkeepers move their shops after running them in a location for a few days, Sharma said.
