The Ratibad police have arrested two persons in raid conducted at fake hand sanitizer manufacturing factory in Ratibad area late in the night on Tuesday; labels of renowned brands were used to sell fake sanitizer.After the information was received police team rushed to spot and raided the area and two persons including the factory owner were arrested in the action.
The accused were making fake sanitiser in the name of Swach Herbal Company. From the spot which was an operational manufacturing factory a total of 780 litre ‘fake’ sanitizer was seized.The total cost would be around Rs 250 for manufacturing while it was sold around Rs 2500- Rs 3000 in the market.
In charge of Ratibad police station, Sudhesh Tiwari said that after receiving information about fake sanitizers were made at Kalkheda village action was taken. The bottles with labels of the branded companies were found which revealed that nexus was working behind the illegal business.
The two were identified as Akshay Sharma, of JK Park in Kolar and Faiz Alam of Aishbagh revealed that they were involved in manufacturing ‘fake’ sanitizers for a long time. They were using country-made alcohol and chemicals to prepare the sanitizers.
During the investigation the two accused revealed that they had stopped manufacturing the fake sanitizers after the second wave.