Drug control officers raid a wholesaler in Jaipur on Friday
JAIPUR: Teams of drug controllers of medical and health department on Friday raided wholesalers of medicines in various districts, including Jaipur, Dausa, Chittorgarh and Ajmer, and seized medicines worth Rs 1 crore which were banned since 2018.
Teams were already into searches at Jaipur, Dausa, Chittorgarh and Ajmer since Thursday. On the conclusion of raids, Rajaram Sharma, drug controller, told TOI, “A tablet named ‘SOMEE Cold’ is a combination of cetirizine, paracetamol, phensedyl, nimesulide and caffeine. The Government of India through a gazette notification had banned this drug on September 7, 2018. However, we were getting regular complaints of sale of this drug in various districts of the state.”
On Friday, a team of drug control officers raided Malhotra Nagar, VKI, and seized about 13.59 lakh tablets of SOMEE cold tablet. “The market price of these is around Rs 76.10 lakh. Similarly, samples of two drugs were raided at M/s Suresh Medicose located at Film Colony in Jaipur from where 3.23 lakh tablets were seized. Their price is around Rs 18.12 lakh,” he added.
Raids and seizures were also made from Dausa, Kishangarh in Ajmer and from Chittorgarh from various stockists.
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