Cuttack: A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed at the Orissa high court, demanding a court-monitored probe or CBI Probe to investigate the seizure of alleged spurious Covid-19 drugs in different parts of the state.
The PIL said that the investigation of the Special Task Force (STF) of the Odisha Crime Branch will not be fruitful.
Acting on a tip-off from the Food & Drugs Administration, Maharashtra State, the Drug Control officials on June,11 conducted a raid at a medicine wholesale godown at Kanika Chhak in the Tulasipur area of Cuttack and had seized several boxes of counterfeit medicines estimated at Rs 70 lakh including 17,000 fake Favipiravir tablets.
Taking the matter into serious consideration, Odisha Health Minister Naba Das earlier said that strict action will be taken against fake medicine rackets and it won’t be tolerated.
