Their sale is illegal without a prescription under a law introduced last year. But an AFP reporter easily bought them this week for about 700 rupees ($12) from a busy pharmacy in an upmarket New Delhi suburb.
Doctors and other health experts say such easy access to antibiotics in India, home to 1.2 billion people, is stoking bacterial resistance to drugs, a global problem that could see long-treatable diseases become killers once again.
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