Fake medicine factory busted
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Medicine factory in the capital's Topkhana busted for producing spurious antibiotics, by a mobile court including those for children, and jailed its owner for two years.

over the last three years. Owner Aminul Ehsan age 40, had been running the unauthorised business on the ground floor of his four-storey building 
The mobile court led by Executive Magistrate of the Rapid Action Battalion Anwar Pasha also fined  the owner Tk 2 lakh.suppose If he fails to pay the fine, he will have to serve a sentence of three more months.
aminul used his experience as an employee of a pharmaceutical company and had been running the heinous business for 10 years,” the magistrate said.
The court began the drive around 10:30am and seized seven types of fake antibiotics worth around Tk 20 lakh and a significant amount of ingredients and labels.
Among them, there were fake medicines with labels of well-known drugs like Duracef, Navacef, Fixcef and Cefox of Navana Healthcare.
The factory had been supplying medicines worth around Tk 1 lakh to the Mitford wholesale market every week. Aminul used to buy low quality powder as ingredients and get labels printed from local printing press.


Ben Woods
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