Spurious drugs factory sealed

LAHORE : Corporate Crime Circle (CCC) of FIA, Lahore, raided and sealed a factory at Harbanspura for allegedly involved in manufacturing spurious drugs.

According to Deputy Director Jamil Ahmed Khan, the raiding team found that neutrasuitical and theraputical drugs were being manufactured in unhygienic environment without any quality control lab.

He said neither any qualified pharmacist nor trained staff was present in the factory. The FIA official said there was no manufacturing licence found at the spot. We have recovered a huge quantity of miscellaneous spurious medicines, including syrup, tablets and capsules along with packing material being used for the treatment of liver, heart, brain, cough and pain killer etc, the FIA official said.

Besides, he said, medical equipment and machinery, including filling machines, blister machine and mixtures as well as raw materials (substandard and spurious) in huge quantity had also been recovered.

An FIR has been registered under Drugs Act 1976 and DRAP Act 2012 against the owner named Dr Zubair Nazir and others. arrested: In another incident, FIA Immigration officials arrested 14 deportees who landed at Allama Iqbal Airport on Thursday on emergency passports from Kuwait. According to FIA officials, the deportees have been handed over to Anti-Human Trafficking Cell (AHTC) of FIA Lahore.