Officials of drugs control administration (DCA) busted a fake antibiotics racket worth Rs 22.95 lakhs during a raid in Uppal and Dilsukhnagar here on Wednesday.

According to a press release, on December 30, DCA officials received a courier, Trackon Couriers Pvt. Ltd, of five cartons from Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. It was under the name of one Puvvada Lakshman, a habitual offender, who was recently accused in a spurious drug racket.

On Wednesday, a delivery boy named Suresh Kumar came to pick up the courier and proceeded to a godown named Sri Venkateswara Enterprises located in Dwarakapuram of Disukhnagar. Puvvada Lakshman along with his associates Pokala Ramesh and Garapalli Purnachander of Saidabad were arrested.