Commissioner’s task force, Rajendranagar zone along with the CDSO team raided a beauty emporium and a medical shop and booked five persons for selling and distributing unauthorised cosmetic products, suspected to have been imported from Pakistan. (Representational Image: DC)

 HYDERABAD: 
Commissioner’s task force, Rajendranagar zone along with the CDSO team raided a beauty emporium and a medical shop and booked five persons for selling and distributing unauthorised cosmetic products, suspected to have been imported from Pakistan.

The teams conducted raids on Beauty Ladies Emporium, Beauty Queen Shop and SJ Medical Shop, Habeebnagar and seized Rs 7 lakh worth cosmetic products imported from Pakistan, K. Sreenivas Rao, additional DCP said.

The seized products included beauty creams and soaps marketed for skin-whitening purposes, which were found to be manufactured in Pakistan and allegedly imported into India without the required authorisation and registration, Sreenivas said.

During the preliminary enquiry, it emerged that the products were allegedly being procured through a Mumbai-based dealer/supplier, who is suspected of receiving or arranging the products from outside India and supplying them to dealers in Hyderabad, he said.

The products were subsequently verified by the concerned CDSCO officials for further legal action. The authorities served notices to the distributors and sellers named Md Fazal, Mohammad Ayan, Mohammed Riyazuddin, Syed Abid Ali and Syed Ismail.

A case has been registered under BNS and Drugs & Cosmetics Act, 1940, and investigation is underway. Special teams have been formed to identify Mumbai-based supplier/dealer and other persons involved in the supply chain, to trace the source and mode of importation of the cosmetic products.

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