The Crime Branch of Delhi Police has arrested two persons for allegedly running a fake medical equipment manufacturing factory in Madipur village. The factory was being run to prepare duplicate life-saving medical equipment used for dialysis, angiography and sugar testing. They were running their illegal factory for the last four years and sold their consignment to several shopkeepers of Bhagirath Place at Chandni Chowk.
Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Yadav said that one of the accused Gulshan Kumar Sharma (33) was arrested on Thursday on a tip off near Ram Manohar lohia (RMl) Hospital when he was going to deliver a consignment of such products to a medicines shop owner. later, on his instances, another accused Ganesh (26) was arrested.
“Gulshan, whose father works with civic body, involved in the illegal activity after he incurred a loss in ready-made business. However, Ganesh, whose father was an engineer in agriculture department in Uttar Pradesh, had joined Gulshan after a huge loss in his sleeper manufacturing factory,” Yadav added.
During interrogation, they disclosed that they were running a factory to manufacture duplicate medical equipment of foreign companies. "Their arrest led to the recovery of around 370 boxes of duplicate one touch horizon sugar test strips, 200 duplicate dialysis guide wires of guide wire technology, 500 duplicate femoral catheters and some other equipment," Yadav said, adding that Gulshan told the police that since there is a huge cost difference between the original product and duplicate products, he indulged in this illegal activity.