Quack prescribed, sold scheduled drugs, arrested

GURUGRAM: A 50-year-old quack has been arrested for illegally providing medical advice and administering and selling medicines to patients in Pataudi.
A joint team, comprising officials from the food and drugs administration and health departments, also seized 58 types of allopathic medicines, including scheduled H/H1 drugs, 19 types of partially used drugs and injections, and medical instruments during a raid at his clinic at Jogiwada on Friday.

Police said Murari Lal, who owned the clinic, did not have any licence to sell medicines neither could he furnish any certificate to prove that he was a registered medical practitioner.

Lal has been booked under sections 336 (act endangering life or personal safety of others) and 420 (cheating) of the IPC and various sections of the IMC Act. He was produced in court and was sent in judicial custody on Saturday.

Sources said the raid was conducted following a tip off that someone was running a clinic illegally and prescribing medicines without the required qualification. Consequently, a joint team, led by Gurugram drug control officer Sandeep Gahlain and deputy civil surgeon Dr Vijay Kumar, was formed to carry out the raid Jogiwada on Friday.

“He (Lal) doesn’t have a medical degree or licence to prescribe or sell drugs. And it is a crime to put others’ life at risk. We are investigating how long he had been involved in this trade and if any patient had suffered due to his diagnosis and prescription,” said Gahlain.