The Delhi High Court today issued notice in a petition to curb the sale of expired drugs..The petition filed by Amit Sahni was heard by a Division Bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V Kameswar Rao..The petitioner has sought a direction to the Central Government to replace the existing mechanism of stamping the strip of medicine so as to avoid or minimize the re-use of expired medicine by stamping afresh with a new expiry date..The petitioner states that chemicals such as after-shave lotion are used for the purpose of erasing manufacturing and expiry dates from medicine strips. Such strips are then re-stamped with new manufacturing and expiry dates and sold..The said process is very easy and the same is misused in such a way for increasing price for financial benefits and for reusing the expired medicines at the cost of health of innocent persons, the Petition states..The petition also informs that “a Drug Mafia with (such) fake drugs worth Rupees Ten Crores” was busted by the Bengal Police last year..Before moving the High Court, the Petitioner had made a representation in August this year requesting the Central Government “to take needful steps in this regard”. The said representation was unanswered prompting Sahni to move the High Court..The matter would be next heard on March 11, 2019..Read the petition below.
The Delhi High Court today issued notice in a petition to curb the sale of expired drugs..The petition filed by Amit Sahni was heard by a Division Bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V Kameswar Rao..The petitioner has sought a direction to the Central Government to replace the existing mechanism of stamping the strip of medicine so as to avoid or minimize the re-use of expired medicine by stamping afresh with a new expiry date..The petitioner states that chemicals such as after-shave lotion are used for the purpose of erasing manufacturing and expiry dates from medicine strips. Such strips are then re-stamped with new manufacturing and expiry dates and sold..The said process is very easy and the same is misused in such a way for increasing price for financial benefits and for reusing the expired medicines at the cost of health of innocent persons, the Petition states..The petition also informs that “a Drug Mafia with (such) fake drugs worth Rupees Ten Crores” was busted by the Bengal Police last year..Before moving the High Court, the Petitioner had made a representation in August this year requesting the Central Government “to take needful steps in this regard”. The said representation was unanswered prompting Sahni to move the High Court..The matter would be next heard on March 11, 2019..Read the petition below.
