Veeramachineni Ramakrishna booked after student ends up in hospital over VRK diet | Hyderabad News
Hyderabad: Cyberabad police have booked social media personality Veeramachineni Ramakrishna, known as VRK, and “Dr” Koteshwara Rao in an alleged fake-doctor and fraud case after a 30-year-old law student claimed he was advised to stop insulin and subsequently landed in hospital with diabetic ketoacidosis.According to the FIR, the complainant has been suffering from type-1 diabetes since 2018. He said he came across videos on VRK’s YouTube and Instagram channels claiming that the VRK diet could permanently cure type-1 diabetes, cancer and kidney disease. After watching the videos, the complainant said he contacted VRK and visited the VRK Health Care Centre in Raidurg in Sept 2025. He alleged that he was orally advised to stop taking insulin. He also said he paid around ₹26,000 for supplements and services, but the bill did not contain GST details.Two days later, according to the complaint, he was admitted to a private hospital with diabetic ketoacidosis and severe dehydration. He was discharged later that month after incurring medical expenses of around ₹58,219. In his complaint, the law student also questioned the qualifications and registrations of those providing the advice.“Ramakrishna (VRK) admitted in a video that he is only a BCom graduate while Koteshwara Rao, who is a homeopathy practitioner, advised me on allopathic treatment,” the complainant stated. He further sought verification of the health centre’s registrations and permissions, including its trade licence, labour licence, DMHO provisional certificate and GST registration, besides the legal status of the supplements supplied to him. He also raised questions over the discrepancy between the number of employees mentioned in the labour licence and those allegedly working at the centre.Police registered a case at Raidurgam police station under Sections 318(4) (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 125(a) (acts endangering human life or personal safety) and 61(2) (criminal conspiracy) of the BNS. The FIR also invokes Section 54 of the National Medical Commission Act, which deals with practising modern medicine without being a registered practitioner, and Sections 3 and 4 of the Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954, concerning advertisements claiming to cure certain diseases, including diabetes. The complainant has also approached the consumer court seeking compensation.HRDA secures gag order against VRKThe Healthcare Reforms Doctors Association (HRDA) on Tuesday said it had secured a civil city court order restraining VRK from publishing content involving unauthorised medical advice and derogatory remarks against allopathic doctors through his social-media handles in connection with the VRK diet. “We have also approached several social-media and digital platforms, including Meta (Facebook and Instagram) and YouTube, seeking the removal or disabling of the identified content. The court has granted the relief sought by us,” said Dr Karthik Nagula, president, HRDA.
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