Gujarat FDCA cancels licenses of stockists in inter-state drug racket

Gujarat Food and Drug Administration (FDCA) has canceled licenses of two Ahmedabad based wholesalers SR Enterprises and Shraddha Healthcare for marketing spurious drugs as a part of huge inter-state drug racket. This is following High Court of Gujarat also having rejected the bail plea of the accused. The police investigation report is also however awaited in the matter. At the time of seizure on December 20, 2016 FIRs were filed against these two wholesalers as a part of the crackdown led by Commissioner FDCA, Dr H G Koshia. The racket had spread its tentacles across Delhi, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra which got detected when the state regulators seized antibiotics worth over Rs.51 lakh in Ahmedabad alone. (Reference: http://www.pharmabiz.com/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=101061&sid=1)