DCA and Enforcement Officials Raid a Store For Posting Misleading Ads

Update: 2024-03-03 17:23 GMT
DCA and Enforcement officials raid a store for posting misleading advertisements. (Representational Image)

Hyderabad: The TS Drugs Control Administration (DCA) late on Sunday night seized oil that was being advertised a cure for various diseases, from a shop in Shakkargunj. The claim was in violation of the Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954, TSDCA Director-General V.B. Kamalasan Reddy said.

The punishment is imprisonment up to six months or a fine, or both, he said.

In a separate operation, the TSDCA along with vigilance and enforcement (V&E) officials raided a clinic run by one Dasari Mallaiah who claimed to be a rural medical practitioner in Yernagudem of Nalgonda district and found that he had stocked medicines without a licence to do so. Officials found 41 varieties of higher generation antibiotics, steroids, analgesics, cough syrups, anti-ulcer drugs, medicines for diabetes and antihypertensives and seized medicines worth Rs 45,000.


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