Gurugram, July 20 -- Spurious hypertension tablets seized from Gurugram medical stores last week were manufactured at a unit in Uttarakhand's Roorkee, officials at Haryana's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Monday.

Raids were subsequently carried out at a wholesale firm in Delhi's Okhla that allegedly supplied the spurious Telmisartan 40 mg and Amlodipine 5 mg tablets to medical stores, leading to the arrest of two persons.

The two suspects told the interrogators that they procured the drugs from a manufacturer in Roorkee. "The tablets and strips were later routed through Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh to finally ensure retail supplies at medical stores in the National Capital Region (NCR), particularly in Gurugram and Delhi," a sen...