Delhi Police Outer District busted a fake Tata Salt factory following complaint of Tata

New Delhi, July 17
Delhi Police Outer District busted a fake Tata Salt factory from Barwala where over 2600 kilograms of fake salt where seized by police.
The accused was identified as Mahesh alias Tony from Barwala who was found involved in bulk production of duplicate "Tata Salt".
The police stated that the most surprising part of the recovered duplicated Tata salt is that each of the packing cover was so intelligently printed that if the customer used to scan the QR code printed on the duplicate packing, then the same used to lead to Tata’s website as genuine.
Sanjay Kumar, authorized representative of M/s Tata Consumer Products Ltd. had given his complaint regarding manufacturing of fake Tata Salt in the area of SB Dairy, Outer North District.
The police team conducted raid in the factory being run in a premises situated in, Jain Colony in Barwala. Huge quantity of duplicate Tata Salt including fake packing material, Electric Weighing Machines, Electric Sealing/packing Machines & Sewing Machine etc. were recovered.
During interrogation, accused Mahesh told police that he had been in the office of one Property Dealer where he came in contact with one Master Ji. Master ji was in the business of trading of packed food items and instigated the accused to start his own business of duplicate Salt.
Accordingly, one year back, the accused started his factory of duplicate tata salt in the rented premises situated in Jain Colony, Barwala. The accused used to pack very inferior and cheap salt in 1kg duplicated packing of Tata Salt and to sell the same as genuine one.
The accused revealed that he used to purchase the duplicate packing material of Tata Salt from his source in Naya Bazar, Delhi at the rate of Rs. 2/- per pack of 1 Kg. The accused further revealed that he used to pack only TATA brand because everyone has full faith in the brand “Tata” and Tata salt is most selling item.
The police seized 33 White Plastic Bags (Fake Printed Katta’s of Tata Salt) containing 40 Packets of 1 kg each of duplicate “Tata Salt”.(Total 1320 Kgs duplicate “Tata Salt”). The police also seized anothertotal of 24 White plastic bags containing 40 Packets of 1 kg each of duplicate “Tata Salt”. (Total 960Kgs duplicate “Tata Salt”). Total 09 White Plastic Bags/Katta’s containing Loose Fake Tata Salt 40 Kgs each. (Total 360Kgs duplicate “Tata Salt” was also seized.
The police recovered 915 printed duplicate/fake packing pouches (1 kg each) of duplicate “Tata Salt”, one printed fake packing Roll of duplicate “Tata Salt”, two portable Electric weighing machines, two portable Electric sealing/packing machines, one portable sewing Machine, used for sewing the plastic Katta’s of duplicate “Tata Salt”.