Hyderabad: Spurious pesticide unit raided, 2 held

Hyderabad: Hayathnagar police on Saturday raided a spurious pesticides unit and arrested two persons running it. The suspects were identified as Tirupathi Pichi Reddy and Veena Naga Srinivas Reddy.

Farmers who had a tough time after buying spurious seeds were now at the receiving end of cheating by spurious pesticide manufacturers.

According to police, the suspects were selling spurious pesticides at Pedda Amberpet. Based on information, police raided the unit and found pesticide in huge quantity.

“Spurious pesticides were seized and samples were sent to the laboratory for tests. The arrested were remanded in custody,” said inspector, K. Satish.