The Supreme Court slammed the Centre for slipping into deep slumber even as illegal clinical trial of drugs on humans by multinational companies was creating havoc in the country. NewsX's Special Investigation had revealed the sickening reality -- of how thousands of India's poorest and most vulnerable citizens are being turned into human lab rats for foreign pharmaceutical companies. Blaming the government for failing to stop such "rackets", leading to deaths across the country, a bench of Justice RM Lodha and Justice AR Dave gave interim directions - ordering that all drug trials should be done under the supervision of the Union health secretary.

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