Delhi-based supplier cheats pharma exporter of Rs 14 lakh

Vadodara: A city-based pharmaceutical exporter was cheated of Rs 13.6 lakh by a supplier from Delhi and his marketing manager.
Exporter Nayab Ali Dholkawala, living at Race Course Road, and having office near Gendigate, lodged a complaint at Wadi police station on Saturday night.
Dholkawala told the police that he had to export Albendazole 400 mg tablets, which are used to treat parasitic worm infestations, to Africa. He contacted Sushil Kumar of SK Sales and Marketing in Delhi for the medicines’ raw material. Police said that Dholkawala’s representative had gathered details and literature of SK Sales and Marketing during a pharma exhibition held in Greater Noida in November last year.
Kumar and his marketing manager Ruchi asked Dholkawala to transfer Rs 13.6 lakh to his account promising to send 1,000 kg of raw material for manufacturing of the drug.
Dholkawala transferred the money through RTGS on December 11 and the raw material was sent on December 25 to a laboratory in Daman where Dholkawala used to get his medicines manufactured. However, the raw material sent was for ‘veterinary use’ and another consignment was sent next month.
In his plaint, Dholkawala said that the second consignment too was also not proper as it did not have mention of usage and the packaging was also not done properly. So Dholkawala asked the marketing manager to send their firm’s quality control manager. But instead he was warned by the Delhi-based firm that they will file a case against them for harassing their female employee.