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Telangana DCA seizes spurious antibiotic drugs shipped from Uttar Pradesh to Hyderabad
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Peethaambaran Kunnathoor, Chennai
November 27 , 2024
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In a joint operation with the Special Task Force, Prohibition and Excise Department, the Drugs Control Administration (DCA) in Telangana busted a spurious antibiotic drug racket in Hyderabad.
The racket involved the shipment of spurious antibiotic tablets from Uttar Pradesh to Telangana through couriers. The STF and the DCA officials raided one courier company and collected details of the sender of the parcels.
The seized spurious antibiotics include Jakclav-625 tablets (amoxicillin and potassium clavulanate tablets), Jikpod-CV tablets (cefpodoxime and potassium clavulanate tablets), Jikcef-LB tablets (cefixime and lactic acid bacillus tablets), and Jikcf AZ tablets (cefixime and azithromycin tablets). Narcotic drugs, fentanyl transdermal patches, were also seized during the raid, sources from the DCA informed Pharmabiz.
According to DCA sources, a habitual offender who is on bail now, is the accused in this case. He, along with his assistant, Munishekhar, a resident of Proddutur in Andhra Pradesh, was arrested by the STF of the excise department.
Sources said one Gandla Ramulu, the accused, shipped the spurious antibiotics into Telangana from Uttar Pradesh. The total seized spurious drugs worth Rs. 6.91 lakhs. According to a communique from the DCA, the department of drugs control got prior information about the movement of spurious drugs into Telangana from UP.
As per the tip off from reliable sources, the officials conducted a raid at Shree Tirupati Courier Services Pvt. Ltd at Balanagar, and found cardboard boxes labeled as received from Shree Pharma, located in front of Gayatri Hospital, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. The boxes were addressed to Shiv Pharma Distributors, IDPL Colony, Adarshnagar, Hyderabad.
The officers kept vigil on the medicine shipment received from Uttar Pradesh and tracked the delivery of the stocks to a person named Gandla Ramulu at KarmanGhat. He is a habitual offender with several spurious drug cases pending against him in the state. Earlier, in February 2024, he was arrested by the Malakpet police in connection with a spurious drug racket, which led to an interstate joint operation in Uttarakhand with drugs control administration in Telangana, Police Commissioner’s Task Force, and Malakpet Police. This operation resulted in the busting of a spurious drug manufacturing unit named Nectar Herbs and Drugs at Kotdwara in Uttarakhand, and the interstate arrests of the offenders.
Further, the officers raided the premises of a crockery shop located in Karmanghat, where Gandla Ramulu had received the consignment. They seized four varieties of spurious antibiotic drugs from his possession. During interrogation, he revealed that he had procured the spurious drugs from Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh through a person named Munishekhar of Proddutur in Andhra Pradesh. He further disclosed that the spurious drugs were intended to be distributed to Kumar of Karimnagar and Bhaskar of Kurnool for sale.
The names of the firms mentioned on the label, namely, manufactured by Geenac Pharma, Plot No. 582, Raipur, Bhagwanpur, Roorkee, Uttarakhand and marketed by, Wellnow Healthcare, Karnal Industrial Estate, Borivali East, Mumbai, are found to be fictitious or non-existing firms, said the DCA.
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