923 litres of fake ghee seized in Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal, 5 arrested
The operation was carried out in a joint drive by the Dhanari police and the Special Operations Group near Khajra Mod. The officers intercepted a car and a mini truck suspected of carrying the fake ghee and found 41 cardboard boxes, each holding 900-ml packets of 'Amul' desi ghee, 20 tins of 'Madhusudan' ghee, each weighing 15 kg, along with packaging materials of other brands, the police said.
The five arrested have been identified as Ashu Jain, his father Sudesh Jain, Avid — all residents of Meerut — Praveen Jain, and Arun Kumar, both from Baraut in Baghpat district.
The group was manufacturing the fake ghee at Praveen Jain's house in Baraut.
According to the police, the gang manufactured fake ghee using a mixture of Dalda and refined oil, along with artificial ghee essence to mimic the smell of pure ghee. The product was then packed into counterfeit pouches of Amul, Madhusudan, and Mother Dairy and sent to market, said an officer.
Officers also claimed that the fraudsters had been repackaging Mayur salt into Tata Salt packets and selling expired coffee in Nescafé jars for the past three years.
Based on information from the accused, the police conducted a raid at Praveen Jain's home, and recovered the equipment used in the operation — two gas stoves, a gas cylinder, a beater, two packing machines, a 40-litre silver soaking machine, a sack-stitching sewing machine, an iron press, bottles of artificial essence, brand-printing dyes, scissors, tape cutters, pliers, adhesive, and hundreds of empty cartons and wrappers of leading brands.
The police have also seized 466 brand wrappers, five mobile phones, and the two vehicles used for transporting the items.
The accused have been booked under various sections of the Food Safety and Standards Act and the Trade Marks Act. They were produced before the court and remanded in judicial custody.
The police said they are probing the racket's distribution network to ascertain how widely the counterfeit products had been circulated.
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