New Delhi, May 7 -- In a major crackdown on the illegal trade of counterfeit medicines, the Crime Branch of Delhi Police has busted an inter-state racket involved in the manufacturing, relabeling and distribution of spurious life-saving drugs, arresting four accused and unearthing a clandestine pharmaceutical unit operating from North Delhi's Mukherjee Nagar.

The racket, according to investigators, had spread its network across Delhi-NCR and several northeastern states, circulating fake and illegally diverted medicines including rabies vaccines, insulin, anti-snake venom, hepatitis vaccines, human albumin and cancer treatment drugs - posing a grave threat to public health.

Acting on intelligence inputs, the Eastern Range-I team of Crime...