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Pratap Chakravarty

Indian pharma company taken to court over freebies to doctors

A pharmacist checks weight of paracetamol tablets inside the lab of a pharmaceutical company on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, March 4, 2020. REUTERS - Amit Dave

Indian authorities are probing allegations that a drug company bribed doctors to promote its anti-fever pills – the latest controversy involving the country’s pharmaceuticals industry.

Accusations that Micro Labs gave freebies to doctors to prescribe its Dolo-650 pills startled the Supreme Court, which on 18 August gave the government 10 days to respond.

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