Bengaluru: IPS officer C. Vamshikrishna to head SIT in spurious drugs case

Bengaluru: IPS officer C. Vamshikrishna to head SIT in spurious drugs case Authorities had seized medicines worth ₹4.91 crore from an unlicenced repacking facility at a farmhouse near Bidadi.

Key points

• Vamshikrishna as its head, along with Superintendent of Police Shiva Prakash Devaraju, CID Superintendent of Police Lokesh B.
• The SIT will additionally include office-holders from the Food Safety and Drug Administration Department, Karnataka.
• Authorities had seized medicines worth ₹4.91 crore from an unlicenced repacking facility at a farmhouse near Bidadi.
• According to Khader had on Wednesday, the Department will form a joint SIT with the police to probe the case.
• The medicines were allegedly relabelled at the facility with the names of reputed pharmacy brands and sold to hospitals and pharmacies at lower rates.

For context, the medicines were allegedly relabelled at the facility with the names of reputed pharmacy brands and sold to hospitals and pharmacies at lower rates. Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto.

Senior IPS officer C. Vamshikrishna, Joint Commissioner of Police (West), Bengaluru City Police, will head a six-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted by the Karnataka administration to conduct a comprehensive probe into the spurious drug bust case near Bidadi. The SIT will additionally include office-holders from the Food Safety and Drug Administration Department, Karnataka. This person busted the racket.

Health and Family Welfare Minister U.T. According to Khader had on Wednesday, the Department will form a joint SIT with the police to probe the case.

Authorities had seized medicines worth ₹4.91 crore from an unlicenced repacking facility at a farmhouse near Bidadi. Preliminary investigations indicated that the medicines had been procured from Himachal Pradesh, Telangana and other States, where fraudulent drug manufacturing units are suspected to be operating. The medicines were allegedly relabelled at the facility with the names of reputed pharmacy brands and sold to hospitals and pharmacies at lower rates.

For context, the SIT team comprises Mr. Vamshikrishna as its head, along with Superintendent of Police Shiva Prakash Devaraju, CID Superintendent of Police Lokesh B. Jagalasar, Assistant Drug Controller Manjunath Reddy, Assistant Drug Controller Namrata Hallur of Bengaluru South district and Drug Inspector Neha Murki.

Notably, the Administration Order dated August 20 places the SIT under the supervision of the Further Director General of Police (Law and Order) and declares it a police station, empowering it to register FIRs, create arrests, conduct criminal investigations, and prosecute cases in the jurisdictional courts.

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