SC slams Centre over medicine overpricing, asks 'can you justify this loot'

The Supreme Court on Tuesday criticised the Centre over the huge gap between the MRP of medicines and their price to retailers, asking whether there was any justification for 'this loot'. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta said the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority appeared 'totally defunct', and reserved its verdict on petitions seeking strict drug price control.