Fake hand sanitiser racket busted in Hyderabad after 1 lakh bottles sold for Rs 1.4 crore
India TodayA fake hand sanitiser manufacturing unit was busted on the outskirts of Hyderabad as police and drug inspectors seized batches of these fake products. Acting on a tip-off, sleuths of the Special Operations Team of Rachakonda, along with police officers of Hyderabad and Ayush Drug Inspector from Telangana, raided the duplicate hand sanitiser manufacturing unit and recovered the fake products. As sales of hand sanitisers and similar products swelled across several national markets since the Covid-19 outbreak began in January 2020, both the accused started manufacturing hand sanitisers without using any kind of precautions or following the standards set by Drug & Ayush Departments. They started manufacturing these fake products under the name Semuns Cleansem Hand Sanitisers, Kausthuba Coclean 19 and Medipro Hand Sanitiser.