{"id":2126,"date":"2026-04-06T07:54:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/two-ddu-staff-held-in-rs-70-lakh-govt-medicine-diversion-racket-delhi-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T07:54:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:24:47","slug":"two-ddu-staff-held-in-rs-70-lakh-govt-medicine-diversion-racket-delhi-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/two-ddu-staff-held-in-rs-70-lakh-govt-medicine-diversion-racket-delhi-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Two DDU staff held in Rs 70 lakh govt medicine diversion racket | Delhi News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-47529300,imgsize-110164,width-400,height-225,resizemode-72\/47529300.jpg\" alt=\"Two DDU staff held in Rs 70 lakh govt medicine diversion racket\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>New Delhi: While investigating a racket in which govt-supplied medicines meant for free distribution through hospitals were being diverted for private sale, Delhi Police\u2019s crime branch made two additional arrests, including a pharmacist and a contractual helper at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>Police seized a total of medicines worth Rs 70 lakh in the operation. The accused, Binesh Kumar, 54, and Prakash Mehto, 30, told cops that they were operating in the network for the past one and a half years through a chain of brokers.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Binesh was found to have allegedly diverted the medicines from hospital stock by manipulating records to reduce supply entries. He was also allegedly coordinating with the previously arrested co-accused <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/neeraj-kumar\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Neeraj Kumar<\/a>, 53, Sushil, 46, and Laxman Mukhia, 47.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/delhi\/two-ddu-staff-held-in-rs-70-lakh-govt-medicine-diversion-racket\/articleshow\/130043835.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: While investigating a racket in which govt-supplied medicines meant for free distribution through hospitals were being diverted for private sale, Delhi Police\u2019s crime branch made two additional arrests, including a pharmacist and a contractual helper at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital.Police seized a total of medicines worth Rs 70 lakh in the operation. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-delhi"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}