India, May 8 -- The Delhi Police has arrested four persons allegedly linked with an interstate racket involved in the manufacture, relabelling and distribution of spurious prescription drugs, unearthing an illegal processing and repackaging unit in northwest Delhi's Mukherjee Nagar area.

Police said the illicit operations allegedly involved diversion of medicines meant for government hospitals in Uttar Pradesh, removal of original labels and identifying marks, and their illegal sale in Delhi-NCR and northeastern states after repackaging.

The arrestees include the alleged kingpin Manoj Kumar Jain (56), a resident of Mukherjee Nagar; Raju Kumar Mishra (57) from Panchkula in Haryana; Vikram Singh alias Sunny (32) and Vatan (35), both resid...