British scientist’s recent claim that a new superbug that renders one resistant to antibiotics has its roots in India, claiming it to have entered UK from India, has irked the health ministry.

The health ministry posted that it is biased to link the bug to India, with the officials tagging the whole issue as "malicious propaganda".

Indian doctors have claimed that they have already warned of a new multi-drug resistant ‘superbug’ earlier this year, and a lot of claims have been made before by the British study.

With many describing the claim as exaggerated and biased, many politicians have perceived it as a planned ruse to taint the country's booming health tourism industry.

However, Indian researchers had already claimed in March that they had discovered 22 new cases of "New Delhi metallo-lactamase-1" producing the drug-resistant bacteria in 24 infection cases witnessed between August and November the preceding year.

The main disturbing fact is the that NDM-1-carrying bacteria renders the human body resistant to carbapenems, an antibiotic often given as a last moment emergency treatment for multi-drug resistant bugs.

"The growing incidence and also the diversity of carbapenemase-producing strains is therefore of major concern", the researchers quoted while showering warnings that the superbug is likely to spread across the globe.