Gangs on prowl selling fake Ayurvedic meds
Crooks promise customers to cure their ailments with their products
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2014-10-01 05:16 GMT
Hyderabad: Active gangs in the city are allegedly cheating gullible customers by selling fake Ayurvedic products. The crooks identify places near hospitals and residential colonies and set up stores. They target customers with chronic illness by promising to cure their varied ailments with their products. They sell fake products at a profit and abscond. The victims realise only later that they were cheated.
Sources have said these gangs have come from Karnataka and are running stores at several unregistered stores across the city. Police says the accused target people suffering from chronic ailments like paralysis, arthritis, back pain, diabetes etc.
“They fool customers by claiming that their ailments will be permanently cured if their products are used,” said B. Limba Reddy, DCP Task Force. Officials said the accused sell these fake medicines priced between Rs20,000 to Rs50,000 and at times even Rs1 lakh. Recently, the police arrested two persons for selling fake Ayurvedic medicines and Baidyanath products at Vasavinnagar in Kharkhana.
“We will book a cheating case against them and send the product samples for testing,” said Mr Reddy. Meanwhile, Ayurvedic experts say in most of the cases, such fake products are neither life threatening nor have dangerous side effects. However, they said it would be better to take the advice of a proper Ayurvedic expert.