Spurious Antibiotic Drugs Racket Busted in Hyderabad City

 Hyderabad: Sleuths from the state Drugs Control Administration (DCA), busted a spurious antibiotics drugs racket that couriered antibiotics from Uttar Pradesh into Telangana and seized antibiotics worth Rs 22.95 lakh during simultaneous raids in Uppal and Dilsukhnagar.

It was found that Cefoxim-CV Tablets were labelled and manufactured by Meg Lifesciences at Khasara in Sirmour of Himachal Pradesh, which is found to be a fictitious company. Three persons, including the key accused Puvvada Lakshman, and his accomplices Pokala Ramesh and Garapalli Purnachander have been arrested.

Based on specific intelligence regarding entry of spurious drugs into the state through courier services, a special team kept vigil on various courier offices, including ‘Trackon Couriers Pvt. Ltd’, at Uppal.

DCA identified the five cartons that were sent from Ghaziabad on December 30 in the name of Lakshman, a habitual offender. The courier office was under surveillance.

They tracked the delivery boys and found that the cartons were delivered at a godown in Dilsukhnagar. The sleuths caught Lakshman, owner of the godown running in name of Sri Venkateswara Enterprises, red-handed.

The accused were supplying spurious drugs to some medical shops in the state, said DCA director V.B. Kamalasan Reddy.