Hyderabad, July 8 -- The Telangana Drugs Control Administration (DCA) on Monday arrested one person for allegedly selling counterfeit epilepsy medication in Hyderabad.

Manish Kumar, a partner and designated competent person of Arvind Pharma Distributors, was apprehended in SBI Staff Colony, Gandhinagar.

He is accused of selling spurious 'Levipil 500' tablets, an anti-epileptic drug falsely labelled as manufactured by Sun Pharma Laboratories Ltd.

Officials confirmed that the seized batch of Levipil 500 was a counterfeit version of Levetiracetam 500 mg tablets and not manufactured by the reputed pharmaceutical company as claimed on the packaging.

Kumar was produced before the magistrate in Secunderabad and sent to judicial remand until ...