The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Delhi Police has arrested a 35-year-old man allegedly involved in illegal manufacturing, storing and selling of spurious pesticides in the national

Capital. The accused has been identified as Atul Singhal, a resident of Rohini.

According to R K Singh, the Additional Commissioner of Police, EOW, a complaint was filed by the authorized representative of UPL Limited - the manufacturer of agro-chemicals in India, including Quickphos.

“The complainant alleged that the accused was manufacturing, stocking and selling counterfeit product fumigant-insecticide aluminium phosphide under the brand name 'Quickphos' in Delhi. Aluminium phosphide has been banned for sale in India since 2001,” said the Additional CP. 

“Singhal used to package and stock up counterfeit fumigant-insecticide aluminium phosphide under the brand name 'QuickPhos' - the brand name of the complainant company in violation of its copyrights and trade mark rights. He has been involved in such illegal activities for the last three years,” said the additional CP.

“A raid was conducted in Siraspur village on Libaspur Road here after completion of initial investigation. Atul Singhal was arrested and counterfeit and spurious materials in huge quantity were seized from the spot along with packaging material containers,” said the additional CP.

“Hazardous low quality chemicals were being used in the process and all these illegal activities were being run in a thickly populated area in an unprofessional manner. He used the brand name 'Quickphos' on the packaged material illegally,” said the additional CP.  

According to the police, counterfeit articles having falsified trademark of the complainant company including 355 Kg of metallic packaging tubes, 28.6 Kg of metallic lid covers, 15.2 Kg of plastic caps, 330 empty metallic containers and 35 filled metallic containers of spurious aluminium phosphide were recovered by them.