India, Sept. 29 -- The Supreme Court on Monday asked its registry to forward a copy of a petition seeking a comprehensive framework to curb the manufacture and sale of counterfeit and adulterated medicines to authorities for consideration. "Have you given any suggestions to the authorities before filing this petition?" a bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana asked petitioner Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay.

Upadhyay referred to the "vacuum" in the existing framework and said there were reports about how fake cancer drugs were supplied to many hospitals in Bengaluru.

"We will send your writ petition to be treated as a representation. That will be more effective than keeping the petition pending here," the ben...