patna the patna police on saturday evening raided nine medicine shops located along govinda mitra road under the pirbahore police station and recovered a huge quantity of medicines including fake and substandard drugsaccording to police the seized drugs are valued at more than rs 50 lakh surprisingly 60 per cent of the seized drugs carried the label of physicians sample not for salethis is the fifth time in the recent past when a police team led by town dsp r k dubey conducted raids on medicine shops and recovered fake medicines on such a large scalethe raided shops include bihar drugs house vashnavi pharma and amit pharma four shops were run without licences from the drug authorities and any signboard police have arrested at least nine persons in this connection raids were going on in the market till late in the eveningdubey said he would investigate every aspect of the case including involvement of government officialsif any i cant imagine such a huge supply of physicians samples in the market without the involvement of drug mafiosi he remarkedsome of the seized drugs including streptomycin vials carried the inscription cgs not for sale for ntcp only according to dubey the cgs may be abbreviation for central government supply if this is so it indicates largescale diversion of medicines from government hospitals to the market we will also investigate this aspect of the case he said incidentally four shops are housed in the same building in which a clinic and nursing home is run by an assistant professor of surgery of the nmch