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Empty strip of tablet sold

TABLETS MISSING FROM BLISTER STRIP;  RETAILER REFUSES TO ENTERTAIN COMPLAINT,  CONSUMER LEFT WITH HOBSON’S CHOICE Mr S omen wanted to purchase some medicines for his wife, prescribed by a D octor. He purchased those M edicines from a reputed pharmaceutical shop near G anesh T emple at A berdeen B azaar. The prescribed dose of 30 tablets was supplied to him in 3 blister strips containing 10 tabs each against cash bill. After consumption of 20 tablets, his wife picked up the third strip and pushed open the first blister and surprisingly found it empty. Puzzled she opened the second location which also was found empty. Thereafter both of them examined each of the remaining blisters and found all of them to be empty; ie tablets were missing from each of the 10 blisters in the strip. He visited the pharmaceutical shop the next day along with the empty strip, cash memo and narrated the shocking discovery. After inspection, the shopkeeper said since the strip was b...