Medicines used for children and distributed free of cost from Government hospitals of Rajasthan were recovered in large number in Mandsaur town of Madhya Pradesh on Friday.
locals spotted the haul of medicines in Balaganj ground on Friday morning and subsequently, police were informed about the incident. Police officials along with district administration reached the spot and recovered the medicines.
Police said the medicines have been seized and police are investigating as how the medicines reached Mandsaur from Rajasthan. All the medicines have tags informing that the expiry of the medicines is in January, 2014.
Prima facie, it is believed that the medicines supplied in government hospitals were brought to Mandsaur for selling in the private medical stores, where the tag of ‘for Rajasthan Government hospital supply’ was to be deleted and later sold at private medical stores.
Naib Tehsildar Mukesh Bamaniya, who reached the spot and seized the medicines before independent witnesses, told that the health department officials of Madhya Pradesh G0overnment would also be intimated about the incident so that further action could be taken against the guilty.
Meanwhile, ten unidentified miscreants attacked Mandsaur district’s police constable Muzaffar Khan and constable of CRPF Ashok Kumar late on Thursday night and fled away with Ashok’s service rifle of 303 bore.
Police said the two cops were on night patrolling and they had questioned the miscreants about their suspicious presence late in the night. Both the victims also sustained minor injuries in the incident. The police have registered a case against unidentified miscreants and launched a massive hunt for them.