Karnal/Chandigarh, March 25 -- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of Haryana on Monday raided an illegal unit in Sonepat's Kharkhoda that was allegedly found to be manufacturing and packing drugs without any licence and seized a large number of spurious tablets and capsules of leading pharmaceutical companies.

The department said that a team raided the site situated in the industrial zone of Firozpur Banger area during wee hours of the day. Officials said that the FDA has also detained a man who was identified as Yogesh Kumar, a native of Sirsa district and an FIR was being registered under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940.

Speaking to the Hindustan Times, Haryana state drug controller Manmohan Taneja said the team seized two blist...