Medical shop-owner booked

Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, March 11

The Kotwali police have registered a case against a city-based medical shop owner in connection with the alleged sale of counterfeit body-building supplements here.

The police have also sealed the godowns of the booked person where products were believed to be stored in large quantities.

Interestingly, the police had not registered such kind of a case in the past, and as per the cops’ claims, they were likely to make a huge recovery of such supplements.

Used to prepare products himself

• The accused was identified as Inderpal Singh of Model Town Extension. He owns the medical shop in Pindi Street, the hub of wholesale medicines market here.
• Station house officer, Kotwali, sub-inspector, Harjit Singh, said the shop-owner himself got prepared these products by using unhealthy ingredients and used the name of foreign companies on the products.

The accused was identified as Inderpal Singh of Model Town Extension. He owns the medical shop in Pindi Street, the hub of wholesale medicines market here.

Station house officer, Kotwali, sub-inspector, Harjit Singh, said ASI Darshan Singh and head constable Roshal Lal got information that Inderpal Singh used to sell the fake supplements to gym-goers.

SHO Harjit said as per information, the shop-owner himself got prepared these products by using unhealthy ingredients and used the name of foreign companies on the products.

The accused also owned godowns near his shop where he had stored a huge quantity of fake products.

The godowns of the accused were also sealed and the samples of the seized products were collected by the department concerned of the state government.

If the reports of the collected samples indicated that health supplements were fake and could cause danger to the lives of gym goers, the police would take legal action in the matter.

Sources said the police might also reach out to gyms in the city where these products were also being sold to youngsters.

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