India, July 29 -- The Delhi Drugs Control Department, along with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Haryana, and Delhi Police, has busted an alleged illegal drug manufacturing and stocking racket operating from a residential apartment in outer Delhi's Narela, officials said on Tuesday. The two-day operation was launched following intelligence inputs about the suspected movement of spurious medicines from the premises. Officials said the raid uncovered an unlicensed manufacturing and packaging unit inside the apartment, where equipment including sealing machines, weighing scales, electric stirrers and drug packaging material were recovered.
The team seized thousands of unlabelled tablets suspected to be Tofacitinib, anabolic steroid injections, chemical solutions and other raw materials. Additional searches in common utility areas of the apartment complex led to the recovery of steroid hormone powders, over 1,500 finished injection vials marked "Made in Germany", loose tablets, empty vials, packaging material and documents allegedly linked to the operation. Officials said no drug licence, purchase records or stock registers were produced during the inspection. Samples of the seized material have been sent for laboratory analysis, while preliminary findings indicate violations under Sections 18, 18A and 18B of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940.
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