Srinagar: Drug Controller of Kashmir (DCK) has suspended the licences of ten medical shops besides prosecution of a shopowner for running his shop without licences in south Kashmir district of Pulwama.
Officials said here that a team of Drug Inspectors led by Assistant Drug Controller, Pulwama, during an inspection of various medical shops yesterday found ten such shops being run by unqualified persons.
The shops had also not maintained the sales and purchase record, they said, adding the DCK ordered suspension of their licences with immediate effect.
Besides, owner of M/S Amaan Medical Store would be prosecuted for running his shop without licence.
Assistant Drug Controller (ADC) stressed that the chemists should not indulge in the sale of intoxicant drugs without maintaining proper sales-purchase record.
The ADC convened a meeting of chemists and directed that such intoxicant drugs should be available with Cooperative Medical Shops and reputed chemists only under proper record so that the drugs are not sold over the counter and without a proper prescription. (KMW NEWS)Â
