1,016 spurious sanitisers seized, one booked

Ludhiana: A team comprising officials of the drug control office conducted a raid late on Monday opposite Malhi Farm, Haibowal Kalan, and seized 1,016 bottles of spurious hand sanitisers. A case against the accused has been registered under Section 17-B of Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, and the matter has been referred to the police for registration of an FIR.
On the basis of the complaint received from a proprietor of a firm, Ron and Baker from Ambala, regarding the sale of a spurious product, Medshield hand sanitiser, of its company. The proprietor of firm Ron Baker, Sunil Dutt, complained, “Lavish Kumar Grover of Haibowal Kalan is selling spurious hand sanitisers in the name of his company and by doing this he is spoiling image of company and earning lakh of rupees.”
On Monday, Sunil Dutt while posing as a decoy customer asked for delivery of the spurious hand sanitisers and Lavish came on an SUV for delivery of the spurious sanitisers opposite Malhi Farm. Meanwhile, the team reached the site and on seeing the team Lavish managed to flee, leaving behind all sanitizers and his SUV.
Two samples of the sanitisers were taken for test and analysis and a total of 1,016 units of the spurious sanitiser were seized by drugs inspectors. A joint team comprising drug control office Rupinder Kaur and Roop Preet Kaur on Monday conducted a raid opposite Malhi Farm, Haibowal Kalan, and seized the 1,016 bottles of spurious hand sanitiser.
Kulwinder Singh, district licensing officer, said, “The recovered product is an imitation of the original product, Medshield, and its label bears name of company M/s Ron and Baker. But actually it is not the product of aforesaid manufacturing firm as per statement and complaint of proprietor Ron and Baker owner Sunil Dutt.
A case against the accused Lavish Kumar and Rahul have been registered under section 17 B of drugs and cosmetics Act 1940 and matter referred to police for registration of FIR.