{"id":477329,"date":"2026-03-15T18:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/477329\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T18:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:17:11","slug":"dr-josh-tablets-used-to-treat-erectile-dysfunction-seized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/477329\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Dr Josh&#8217; tablets used to treat erectile dysfunction seized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/sildenafil-tablets.jpg\" alt=\"sildenafil tablets\" is_main_img=\"1\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image sp-no-webp\"\/>   Sildenafil tablets    <\/p>\n<p>Hyderabad: Huge stocks of Sildenafil tablets 100 mg were seized by the Drugs Control Administration (DCA) officials on Friday, March 13, during a raid at a Delhivery Limited depot in Hayathnagar mandal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.siasat.com\/tag\/rangareddy\/\" id=\"600362\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rangareddy<\/a> district.<\/p>\n<p>The tablets were detected bearing the brand name \u201cDr Josh,\u201d which claimed to be manufactured by Alventa Pharma Limited in Himachal Pradesh\u2019s Solan. The drugs were illegally shipped from Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, without any invoices.<\/p>\n<p>Puvvada Lakshmana, a habitual spurious drug offender, illegally transported the consignment, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.siasat.com\/tag\/dca\/\" id=\"791025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DCA<\/a> officials. He has various drug cases pending against him in the state.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=siasat.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"google-news-btn\" style=\"display:inline-block;transition:transform .2s ease,box-shadow .2s ease;border-radius:12px;overflow:hidden;line-height:0;font-size:0;\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"200\" height=\"70\" style=\"display:block;margin:0;padding:0;height:70px;width:auto;\" decoding=\"async\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/preferred_publisher.webp.webp\"\/> <\/a>    <\/p>\n<p>The officials seized a stock of 7,300 tablets worth Rs 2.7 lakh during the raid. DCA officers collected the samples for detailed analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Further investigation will follow, and action will be taken against the offenders as per the law, the officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Sildenafil tablets, commonly known as Viagra, are prescription medications used to treat erectile dysfunction and pulmonary arterial hypertension.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/mseducationacademy.in\/new-admission\/?ref=siasat.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" style=\"display: block;\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"MS Admissions 2026-27\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" style=\"width: auto; max-height: 280px;\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/MS-FEB-19.jpeg\"\/> <\/a>          <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sildenafil tablets Hyderabad: Huge stocks of Sildenafil tablets 100 mg were seized by the Drugs Control Administration (DCA)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[23817,169892,139058,169893,102,21500,52253,6591,67065,2594,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-477329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-delhivery","tag-drug-case","tag-drugs-control-administration","tag-hayathnagar","tag-health","tag-hyderabad","tag-kanpur","tag-medication","tag-raid","tag-tablets","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}