Bengaluru: Rajasthan man arrested for selling smuggled food products with fake FSSAI stickers
Bengaluru: City Police Commissioner B Dayanand stated that the sleuths from Economic offences wing of Central Crime Bureau (CCB) arrested an individual for selling untaxed imported food products to malls and supermarkets in the city with fake FSSAI stickers, on Wednesday.
The accused is identified as Narendra Singh (45). A case has been registered at the Kalasipalya Police Station in this regard.
Narendra Singh, originally from Rajasthan, had been living in the city from many years. Food products worth 1 crore has been seized from him. Starting the illegal business 5-6 years ago, he imported chocolates, biscuits, cold drinks and other food products from foreign countries. The consignment would be shipped to Mumbai port first and would be transported to Bangalore on road. The food products thus imported would be stocked in a warehouse in Sudhama Nagara. Based on credible information, CCB officers raided the warehouse and arrested the accused.
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Police discovered that the accused smuggled the food products to the country without paying any taxes. He pasted fake FSSAI stickers on the stocked items and made profits, illegally, by selling them to malls and supermarkets at expensive prices, the police commissioner stated.
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Illegally stored gas cylinders seized
Thane (PTI): Authorities have seized illegally stored 1,839 gas cylinders and seven vehicles worth over Rs 67 lakh in the Dombivli MIDC area of Thane district, officials said on Saturday.
A special vigilance team of the Mumbai Rationing Department detected an illegal storage of domestic and commercial LPG cylinders in Phase-2 of Dombivli (East).
Cylinders belonging to multiple gas agencies were found stockpiled in closed vehicles, unauthorised warehouses, and open sheds without mandatory permissions from the Explosives Department, Fire Department, or oil companies, according to an official release.
