Lawyer held with huge haul of illegal abortion kits

  • | Saturday | 23rd March, 2019

Aurangabad: Seizure of illegal abortion kits from a lawyer-turned-drug peddler set alarm bells ringing in the city health fraternity. We suspect this could be a huge racket and the picture will become clearer once we gather more evidence.” Crime branch authorities say this haul could indicate a widespread illegal abortion racket. He had several abortion kits, stimulants and sleeping pills, which he was carrying on a bike. Echoing FDA concerns, crime branch inspector Madhukar Sawant said, “We have got some clues about the source of these drugs. However, policemen and FDA officials were stumped by the types of drugs they recovered from him.

Aurangabad: Seizure of illegal abortion kits from a lawyer-turned-drug peddler set alarm bells ringing in the city health fraternity. The crime branch and Food and Drug Administration officials have begun a probe.A preliminary probe indicates that this could be an inter-state racket in which some pharmaceutical dealers and distributors are involved. Police suspect these drugs have been sold illegally to more than one peddler from Aurangabad and neighbouring areas. Activists expressed concern over the recovery of abortion kits.Earlier this week, 45-year-old Sagar Baburao Shinde, a resident of Mayurnagar in Hudco area, was nabbed by a team led by inspector Afroz Shaikh of the crime branch and FDA inspector Varsha Mahajan.Shinde, the investigators found, is registered as a lawyer with the bar council. He had several abortion kits, stimulants and sleeping pills, which he was carrying on a bike. The man was produced before a court which remanded him to custody until Friday.The crime branch had earlier been tipped off about the movement of drug peddler carrying sedatives to be sold illegally to drug addicts. That was how Shinde was nabbed. However, policemen and FDA officials were stumped by the types of drugs they recovered from him. He had in his possession a haul of medicines worth about Rs 2 lakh. When he was arrested, he claimed to be a medical representative working for a pharmaceutical firm.FDA authorities are probing the full extent of the illegal sale and supply of abortion kits and aphrodisiacs in the open market. There will soon be a crackdown on the whole supply chain, officials said. Echoing FDA concerns, crime branch inspector Madhukar Sawant said, “We have got some clues about the source of these drugs. We suspect this could be a huge racket and the picture will become clearer once we gather more evidence.” Crime branch authorities say this haul could indicate a widespread illegal abortion racket.

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