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The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Vijayawada Branch Office, conducted a hunt and seizure cognition astatine One Town Gold Hallmarking Centre successful Kurupam Market connected Tuesday.
A squad of BIS officials seized a laser marking instrumentality allegedly being utilized to imprint counterfeit BIS hallmarks without valid recognition. The officials besides seized a integer video recorder, a computer, and golden ornaments bearing fake hallmarks, indicating a usurpation of the compulsory hallmarking provisions nether the BIS Act, 2016.
Scientist-E and Director & Head of BIS, Vijayawada Branch Office, Prem Sajani Patnala, said that enactment would beryllium initiated nether Section 29 of the BIS Act, 2016, for usurpation of Section 15(3).
She said the offence carries penalties including imprisonment of up to 1 twelvemonth oregon a good of not little than ₹1 lakh for the archetypal contravention. The good whitethorn widen up to 5 times the worth of the goods progressive successful the violation.
The offence is cognisable and depending connected the severity and recurrence, whitethorn besides pull imprisonment, fine, oregon both, she sadded.
BIS squad members Joint Director, B. Rajagopal, Deputy Director, D. Vivek Vardhan Reddy were present.
