June 29, 2020
The police have busted a factory on the Pasina Kalan road near Panipat reportedly manufacturing spurious soft drinks. They have booked eight businessmen in this connection. Two of them have been arrested. The police on Sunday produced the accused in court, which sent them to seven-day police remand.
The police have busted a factory on the Pasina Kalan road near Panipat reportedly manufacturing spurious soft drinks. They have booked eight businessmen in this connection. Two of them have been arrested. The police on Sunday produced the accused in court, which sent them to seven-day police remand.
The police recovered wrappers and logos of a branded beverage company, chemicals, 200 bags of sugar, cooling towers, a filter machine, a label machine, a packing machine, raw material, Rs71,000 and a truck loaded with 474 boxes of soft drink.
The police also recovered 3,780 boxes of spurious soft drinks and 1,840 duplicate soft drink bottles from a godown near the national highway. On a tip-off, a team led by DSP (Crime) Rajesh Phogat raided the factory on Friday night. They nabbed Atul Kumar Saksena and Gulshan, who failed to produce valid documents. The factory was manufacturing Mountain Dew without permission, said Satish Vats, DSP (Headquarters).
