Police in Mumbai have registered a case against six persons, a hospital, a pharma company and a medical supplier for selling fake ‘iron deficiency’ injections.

A Pune-based pharmaceutical company that manufactures injections for iron deficiency complained to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) department in July that “fake injections” were being sold in the market with their brand name. “There were also complaints that some patients had died after they were administered the injections,” police sources said.