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Officials of the Telangana Drugs Control Administration (DCA) person seized pharmaceutical excipients worthy ₹70.56 lakh from a premises successful the Alwal country of Hyderabad aft uncovering alleged amerciable statement tampering and the usage of fictitious manufacturing details.
DCA officials conducted a raid connected June 12 astatine DK Pharmaceuticals, located successful Mangapuram Colony, Old Alwal. During the inspection, officials recovered 12 cardboard drums containing 240 kg of Hydroxypropyl Betadex, a pharmaceutical excipient utilized arsenic a solubilising and stabilising cause successful the manufacture of assorted cause formulations.
According to the DCA, the drums carried labels bearing Batch No. RHPB/2026/05/002 with manufacturing day May 2026 and expiry day April 2029. The labels identified DK Pharmaceuticals arsenic the shaper and mentioned a manufacturing portion astatine Plot No. 59/B, EPIP, Pashamylaram, Sangareddy district. However, consequent verification revealed that the manufacturing installation mentioned connected the labels was fictitious and did not exist.
Further probe recovered that partners of DK Pharmaceuticals, Mr. Sateesh Babu Dhulapalli and Mr. Nagaswami Katragadda, had allegedly removed the archetypal labels from the pharmaceutical excipient and replaced them with fabricated labels carrying details of the non-existent manufacturing unit. The banal was seized during the operation, said a merchandise from the DCA.
Officials said samples had been collected for analysis, and further probe was underway. They added that enactment would beryllium taken against each those progressive successful accordance with the law. Such activities represent superior violations of the provisions of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, and the Rules framed nether it, carrying a punishment of imprisonment for up to 5 years.
