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Two persons were arrested erstwhile the Commissioner’s Task Force, South-East Zone, busted an amerciable manufacturing portion making duplicate Karachi mehendi cones and seized counterfeit products and machinery worthy astir ₹8 lakh.
Acting connected a tip-off, Task Force officials , on with Balapur and Afzalgunj police, carried retired simultaneous raids connected January 13 astatine a residence successful Minar Colony, Balapur, and astatine SKS Travels and Cargo successful Afzalgunj. The cognition led to the apprehension of Md Asif, 48, a carpenter from Minar Colony, Balapur, and Deepak Kumar, 25, a businessman from Gowliguda Chaman.
Police identified Asif arsenic the shaper and Kumar arsenic the wholesale supplier. During the raids, officers seized 8,400 duplicate Karachi mehendi cones, a mehendi filling machine, a mixer, heating stoves, a weighing machine, packing material, printed boxes bearing the Karachi name, bare cones, mobile phones and ample quantities of earthy material, including mehendi powder, chemic additives and colouring agents.
Investigations revealed that Asif had acceptable up a tiny accumulation portion successful Balapur wherever helium initially manufactured unbranded mehendi cones. With mediocre request for his ain products, helium began producing counterfeit Karachi mehendi cones, exploiting the brand’s popularity successful the market. The duplicate products were supplied to shops successful the duplicate cities and different cities done Deepak Kumar, who handled wholesale organisation utilizing backstage transport, passing disconnected the counterfeit cones arsenic genuine and cheating consumers for profit.
Further probe is nether way.
