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Selling strips of medicines that are past their expiration date is illegal, the central Mumbai district consumer forum said on Tuesday, directing a city medical store to pay a sum of Rs. 30,000 to a Sion resident for having sold him an ‘expired’ strip of tablets. The consumer forum held the medical store Dial for Health India Limited guilty of deficiency in service, for selling the medicines to Chetan D’souza, the complainant.
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Police Monday said it arrested the owner of a drug store namely Endocrine Diagnostic Centre, Karanagar for selling “expired medicine”.
On a complaint of a local, Irfan Shafi Gagroo, who had purchased medicines from the shop, police found a number of drugs including injections expired in the shop and seized all the stock.
Gagroo had bought the injections for her wife from the Centre and found its expiry date as Oct 2015. “I was shocked to see the injections as expired,” he said. “Without wasting any time, I went to police station Kara Nagar and lodged a complaint.”
SHO Karan Nagar said the shop has been sealed and the owner of the shop, Muhammad Saleem has been arrested. “We have taken up investigations after arresting the owner and sealing his shop,” the officer said.