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Pooja Srivastava | Anytime News Network
The sacred trust between patients and pharmacies stands shattered in Lucknow’s medical hub of Aminabad, where a massive counterfeit medicine syndicate has been exposed. A crackdown by the Food Safety and Drug Administration (FSDA) revealed that prominent outlets, including M/s Apollo Pharmacy, Aminabad, were actively operating as conduits for illegal, life-threatening fake drugs.
Government School Teacher Exposed as Kingpin
In a chilling revelation, investigators discovered that M/s Apollo Pharmacy, Aminabad was being operated by Avinash Chaudhary, a primary school teacher posted in Barabanki. Shielding behind a noble profession, Chaudhary orchestrated an organized network using fake billing mechanisms to dump counterfeit pharmaceuticals directly into the retail market. An FIR under stringent sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) has been registered against him.
Fictitious Billing Web Fueling Counterfeit Trade
Investigations highlighted how Apollo Pharmacy teamed up with interconnected firms to generate bogus bills and cross-billing records without any physical movement or inventory of actual medicines । By faking financial transfers and bypassing standard supply chain protocols, this cartel successfully flooded the open market with substandard and spurious life-saving drugs ।
Systemic Failure Threatens Public Health Security
Spanning interstate links across Uttarakhand and Rajasthan, this illicit network exposes deep administrative loopholes and regulatory laxity । As prominent retail outlets like Apollo Pharmacy stand implicated in dangerous cross-billing scams, citizens are left paralyzed by a growing crisis of trust in healthcare infrastructure ।
