Overview
- Police identified the detainee as Bhola Prasad, owner of Shaili Traders and father of alleged mastermind Shubham Jaiswal, who was stopped before a flight to Thailand with reported onward plans for Singapore.
- He is being brought to Sonbhadra on transit remand and will be lodged in jail after formalities at the Robertsganj police station are completed, according to officials.
- An FIR at Robertsganj Kotwali names Prasad and two shop operators after a Drug Inspector reported that about 7,53,000 bottles were billed to two Sonbhadra outlets later found locked and empty with no records.
- The probe follows a major Varanasi raid that recovered roughly 93,000 bottles from a Rohania warehouse, where one worker was detained and the warehouse owner, identified as Mahesh Singh, is being traced.
- Uttar Pradesh’s Food and Drugs Department has filed cases against 12 additional pharmaceutical firms, adding to 26 previously named, as investigators scrutinize the suspected multi-state supply chain.