LUCKNOW, July 25 -- The UP Food Safety and Drug Administration (FSDA) has lodged an FIR against four pharmaceutical distributors, alleging they diverted a large consignment of prescription medicine by creating forged return documents and manipulating commercial records, exposing what investigators suspect is an organised racket in the pharmaceutical supply chain. The FIR was registered at Aminabad police station in the early hours of Friday under BNS, including sections 111 (organised crime), 276, 277, 278, 318(4), 319(2), 336(2) and 338, which relate to organised crime, cheating, forgery, use of forged documents and criminal conspiracy, officials said. According to the complaint filed by an FSDA drug inspector, the investigation pertains to 24,000 tubes of suspected counterfeit Thrombophob Ointment (20 gm) bearing Batch Nos. 1403999 and 1404222, with an expiry date of July 2027. The regulator alleged the consignment was supplied through invoices generated in February 2025 and passed off as genuine medicine. FSDA's inquiry into invoices, e-way bills, warehouse records, stock registers, GST documents and bank transactions found the purported return existed only on paper. Investigators alleged medicines were diverted into the market using forged records. Police named four distributors and others in the FIR....