Drug stocks worth Rs 1.5 lakh seized in DCA raid at Patancheru
Fifty-four varieties of medicines including antibiotics, steroids, antidiabetic, antihypertensive and antiulcer drugs, analgesics, and others, were found on the premises owned by Bachu Sai Charan
Hyderabad: The Drugs Control Administration (DCA), Telangana, raided an unlicensed premises in Patancheru and seized stocks worth Rs 1.51 lakh on Saturday. Fifty-four varieties of medicines including antibiotics, steroids, antidiabetic, antihypertensive and antiulcer drugs, analgesics, and others, were found on the premises owned by Bachu Sai Charan. In a separate raid, DCA seized ‘Mukta Vati' tablets, an Ayurvedic medicine, from Ichoda in Adilabad district for making a misleading advertisement claiming that it treated ‘high blood pressure’.
Human trafficking racket: Three held, three victims rescued
Hyderabad: The city women security wing (WSW) police and the anti-human trafficking unit arrested three persons, including a Bangladeshi couple and a customer, and rescued three victims during a raid on a hotel at Lakdikapur. Police said they also seized drugs from the premises. The victims have been sent to a state-run shelter.
Police said Saleem Mondal and his wife Maria Inchem of Bangladesh, who were running the brothel, would procure girls from Bangladesh, West Bengal and other states. The couple were residents of Narsingi. The suspected main international women trafficker Suman Kumar Guru alias Ravi Kumar was absconding, said WSW DCP Dara Kavitha.
45-yr-old rag-picker succumbs to burns
Hyderabad: A 45-year-old woman succumbed to burns she sustained while picking up rags from a garbage yard, Abdullapurmet police said on Saturday. Police have launched an investigation into the cause of the fire. Abdullapurmet inspector B. Anji Reddy said the incident occurred at 11.30 am and identified the victim as Buggula Lalitha, a resident fo Naikgutta in Hayathnagar. The victim’s body has been shifted to OGH mortuary for postmortem.
Man murders son
Hyderabad: A man murdered his son, attacking him with a vegetable cutter in Saroornagar on Friday, according to the police. The victim, Veerangari Jaipal, 23, had scolded his father V. Shekar, 48, for not going to work, in Maruthinagar Karmanghat.
Saroornagar V. Saidi Reddy said that the police received information from a local at 8 pm about the murder. Witness said Shekar stabbed his son Jaipal on the neck, leading to grievous injuries.
Jaipal’s family members shifted him to a private hospital for treatment, where the duty doctor declared him dead. “We have registered a case of murder against the accused and are investigating,” the inspector said.