Fake cancer medicine racket: By taking data from hospitals, they preyed on patients in three ways, thus the business was running without a shop

Neeraj used to make and sell medicines

The third accused Neeraj Chauhan used to make and sell fake medicines. He has previously worked in cancer hospitals like Dharamshila, Paras and BLK.

The 8 arrested accused came in contact with each other due to working in many hospitals, doing B.Pharma and being associated with the medical field, due to which they have good contacts in cancer hospitals of Delhi-NCR.

Taking advantage of their contact, the accused were running their nefarious business by obtaining data of cancer patients in three ways.

These three methods are used to contact patients

First: The accused used to directly contact cancer patients and their relatives and sell them fake medicines on the pretext of providing them at cheaper rates.

Second: The accused used to make fake medicines and sell them in the markets. Apart from Delhi-NCR, fake chemotherapy medicines have been confirmed to be sold by drug sellers in Haryana, UP, Bihar and Pune.

third: It is used to sell fake medicines to patients coming to Delhi for cancer treatment from African countries, Nepal and other countries. Each cancer hospital has a separate wing for patients coming for treatment from abroad, manned by several hospital staff.

Some of the accused have worked in this section in different hospitals, due to which they have good knowledge about the patients of the hospital. Due to which these people used to directly contact foreign patients and sell them fake medicines by luring them at cheap prices.

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The Crime Branch team is preparing a list to find out which drug sellers and patients have sold fake medicines through the above three means so that they can also be interrogated.

The investigating officer says that chemotherapy is given to patients of all four stages of cancer. It depends on the doctors treating the patient's disease. These are medicines of different strengths.

Some medicines are so strong that patients start losing hair. If stage IV patients receive counterfeit chemotherapy drugs, their lives could be in danger. Because the fake medicines of seven foreign and two Indian brands prepared by the accused do not provide any benefit to the patients.

These people simply put anti-fungal in artificial medicine, which is like water. This can neither benefit nor harm the patients.

14 people were arrested in 2022 also

Earlier in November 2022, the 14 people who were arrested by the Crime Branch on charges of making fake cancer medicines, used to fill the tablets with starch i.e. maize flour. Due to which patients are not getting any benefit.

Komal Tiwari is a resident of Buddha Vihar and has done B.Pharma. In 2013, it joined the Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre. He was in charge of the chemotherapy department in this hospital for the last several years.

Abhinav Kohli used to work at Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute in 2018.