DCA sleuths bust illegal drug manufacturing facility in Khammam

Khammam: Drug Control Administration (DCA) sleuths have arrested an illegal drug manufacturing facility at TSIIC Industrial Park in Annarugudem village of Tallada mandal in the district.

In a statement on Saturday, Director General (Drugs Control Administration), VB Kamalasan Reddy informed that, based on credible information, a special team of agents of DCA announced an unauthorized raid located in Plot No. 15 of the Industrial Park. , From the village on 22 December. Aspen Biopharma Pertens.

DCA officers discovered illegal drug manufacturing at the facility. Locally he found the active pharmaceutical principles, valsartan and clopidogrel. Narcotics weighing approximately 935 kg were found at that location and confiscated.

The facility was being run by Upender Reddy, a close relative of Kadri Sathish Reddy, whose unlicensed facilities in Machha Bollaram, Hyderabad were raided by DCA agents on December 4 and anti-cancer drugs and other spurious drugs worth Rs 4,35 crore were seized. Seized. Lakhs of rupees.

Kamalasan Reddy said, key accused Sathish Reddy, who had fled after the seizure of fake drugs from his facilities on December 4, was also the key conspirator in the management of illegal drug manufacturing facilities in Annarugudem village.

The agents who conducted the raid included DCA Deputy Director C Rajwardhan Chari, Deputy Director G Prasad, Drug Inspector K Devender Reddy, Choudhary Anil Kumar and Choudhary Sampath Kumar.

Production Manager, Kanagula Raju, Store Manager, Vasanthpuram Sambasiva Rao and Company Office Manager, Sappidi Sudhakar Reddy of the illegal drug manufacturing unit were present during the raid, which was carried out with the help of the local police. ,

Drug samples were taken for analysis. The Director General said, more investigation will be done and measures will be taken as per law against all the criminals responsible for illegal manufacturing of medicines.