Shillong, May 30 (IANS) An ayurvedic doctor was arrested Monday in Meghalaya’s West Garo Hills district for prescribing allopathic drugs, officials said.

A team of government medical officials and a magistrate raided the clinic of Satish Chandra Jha at Tura, the district headquarter of West Garo Hills and seized a note in which he had prescribed allopathic drugs for malaria and typhoid without any authority, District Magistrate Sanjay K. Goyal told IANS by phone.

Goyal said the team also raided the Alpha Beta Clinical Laboratory and arrested a laboratory technician, found to be referring patients to Jha.