May 11, 2012, Kochi: The Drugs Control Department on Thursday initiated prosecution steps against ayurveda majors - Indulekha, Dhatri and Sreedhareeyam - for misleading the public through false claims and advertisements.
The Drugs Control
officials took the initiative after conducting search operations at the
stores of wholesale dealers and the manufacturing units, State Drugs
Controller Satheesh Kumar said.
Prosecution
steps were initiated in all districts against these companies for
flouting the Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements)
Act, 1954.
According to the Act, no product should be sold with false claims, he said.
Steps would be taken to cancel the licences of the offenders, he said.
Drugs worth about Rs 51 lakh were seized from the wholesale stockists and the manufacturing units, he said.
Indulekha
Bringha Complete Hair Care Oil, Dhathri Fair Skin Cream and
Sreedhareeyam Smartlean are the products that were carrying misleading
or false statements, he said.
Stating
that the initiative was taken in public interest, Satheesh Kumar said a
plethora of complaints were received from different quarters saying
that the advertisements/statements of many ayurvedic drugs are
misleading the public and that these drugs are being sold at exorbitant
prices.
Meanwhile, Dhatri MD Dr Saji Kumar alleged that it was only a planned operation.
“An allopathy mafia is behind this and we will not be affected,” he said.
Sajikumar
also said that they had the right to advertise and that the people
would not know about the products unless they were advertised.
In
Thiruvananthapuram, the raid was conducted by a team comprising Special
Intelligence Inspector Santhosh K Mathew, drug inspectors Vinodh V,
Sudhir Babu, Moniveena and Geetha M C.
Assistant
Drugs Controller, Ernakulam, M R Pradeep, Intelligence Bureau inspector
Jayan Philip, drug inspectors Aju Joseph, Jaya V Dev, P Y John, Shaji P
H, Nishith M C, Gladis P and Vinayan M P took part in the raids held in
KochiCourtesy: IBN Live
