Raid on Lakhimpur fertiliser factory: Two booked for making, selling bogus fertilisers
Hindustan TimesThe Lakhimpur district agriculture officer Arvind Kumar Chaudhary lodged a complaint with the city kotwali police on Saturday, in connection with the recovery of a huge stock of bogus chemical fertilisers from a private factory, in Rajapur industrial area, on Friday evening. For representation only In his complaint with the police, Chaudhary named one Ritik Gupta and his father, Manish Gupta, and said that the duo was manufacturing bogus fertilisers and selling them under the brand name of various reputed fertiliser companies. However, during Friday’s raid conducted under the orders of district magistrate Mahendra Bahadur Singh, illegal stocks of chemical fertilisers, counterfeit fertilisers, sealing and packing material, lab equipment, empty bags and material to prepare bogus wrappers and labels were recovered from seven godowns and an open shed. On Friday, Kheri DM, Mahendra Bahadur Singh, on a tip off, had deputed SDM Lakhimpur Shriddha Singh, DSP Sandip Singh and DAO Arvind Kumar Chaudhary to inspect Govind Industries in the Rajapur industrial area and submit their report.
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