Ethics · 22 Aug 2026
With reference to the recently busted anti-cancer drug diversion racket in Delhi, which one of the following statements is NOT correct?
Delhi Police busted a Rs 9 crore interstate racket diverting and counterfeiting anti-cancer drugs like Keytruda, arresting 17 people including four hospital staff members who used their institutional access to divert medicines meant for cancer patients into a black market supply chain.
UPSC's Ethics paper often tests precise comprehension of who exactly was responsible in an institutional failure case - conflating "insiders were involved" with "all actors were insiders" is a common and testable misreading.
The Delhi anti-cancer drug racket combined institutional insider diversion (4 of 17 arrested were hospital staff) with CGHS stock diversion, private hospital theft and counterfeit manufacture, showing that professional trust itself can become a vector for patient harm when unchecked by independent verification.
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