Aurobindo

Pernod Ricard did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment, while Aurobindo did not respond to an email seeking details on the arrest.

Shares in Aurobindo, which makes a range of medicines from antibacterials to antidepressants, fell over 7%.

Reddy's arrest is not connected with the operations of Aurobindo or its subsidiaries, the company said in a separate filing.

After she quit her job in Bhubaneswar and returned to Rairangpur to take care of her family at the insistence of her mother-in-law, she took up a job as a teacher at the Sri Aurobindo Integral School.

He eventually earned a master’s degree in English literature and wrote his Ph.D. thesis on Sri Aurobindo, a nationalist pioneer in India.