Medicines worth Rs 66 lakh seized

A large quantity of medicine valued at Rs 66 lakh were seized on Wednesday from a school premises near the Sadar hospital in Bihar's East Champaran district, official sources said.

Acting at the directive of the District Magistrate Vinay Kumar, SDO Pankaj Kumar raided the premises of a training school and seized the medicines, the sources said.

The medicines were supplied without order of the hospital authorities and kept on the school premise without entry in the register, they said.