CHANDIGARH: The state food-safety and drug administration (FDA), in a 12am raid carried out at a house in Mansa on Friday night, busted a racket in which local-made, substandard ghee, salt and detergent were being packaged in packets of popular brands for sale in the market.
The raid came aftyer the police were tipped off and they informed the FDA. When the FDA and police raided the house, they found that locally made ghee was being recpakaged as that of Verka and Amul. The team also unearthed fakes of Tata Salt, Tide detergent powder, and more such brands, said FDA commissioner Kahan Singh Pannu.
Police have not ruled out the possibility of more persons being involved in the racket.
The accused has been identified as Mansa resident Parveen Kumar. Pannu said the accused made desi ghee from vegetable fat mixture and used to pack it in packets of five brands of vanaspati and three brands of desi ghee. A stove was installed to mix vanaspati and mixture of different oils to prepare ghee.
A large number of labels of various products were also recovered, indicating the involvement of other people stationed at different places for preparing and selling the fake products under the garb of famous brands.
About 700 packets of Tata Tea Gold filled with poor quality tea were also found. The entire stock, including wrappers and packets, was seized and an FIR registered under different sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC) against the accused. The accused was produced in court on Saturday. Proceedings under Food Safety and Standards Act will be initiated after the FDA gets the report from food analyst.
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