Police from Nagpur district have arrested Raman Vijayakumar Taneja from Uttar Pradesh in connection with a fake medicine racket that was busted in March 2023. The arrest occurred recently when a team from Kalmeshwar police station in Nagpur apprehended Taneja in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh.
In March 2023, the Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had seized samples of ‘ciprofloxacin’ tablets from a state-run healthcare facility in Kalmeshwar, located about 40 km from Nagpur. The samples were sent to a government lab in Mumbai for testing, which revealed that the tablets were counterfeit.
Taneja’s arrest is a significant development in the investigation of this fake medicine racket, which posed serious public health risks. The police and FDA continue their efforts to uncover the full extent of the operation.
