Gunga police seized a truck carrying spurious milk products weighing 1,580 kg worth Rs 5lakh near Dopadia petrol pump in the morning on Tuesday. The truck was scheduled to deliver milk products at four dairies in different parts of the State Capital which was prepared in Gwalior.
Acting on a tip off, Gunga police traced and found the truck bearing registration number MP07GA6449 and recovered spurious milk products and nabbed the driver.
Police further added that the driver, identified as Naresh Singh Baghel of Gwalior, was nabbed and when he was quizzed, he confessed that the spurious milk products are carried from Gwalior to the State capital through Berasia. The truck was tracked near Dopadia trisection.
The official from Food Drug Administration, Food Safety Officer DK Verma and his team checked the milk product and found it spurious.
The goods were booked by Mahesh Sharma and Lochan Singh of Gwalior for delivering at four dairies in the state capital.
The four dairies are Haryana Dairy at 7 no. stop, Gurukripa Dairy at 11 no. market, Devanshu Dairy at 11 no. market and Ashok Dairy Itwara and the deal was facilitated by Bhopal based agent Vijay Anand alias Bunty of Aradhana Nagar who has been penalised Rs 2 lakh by the Food Drug Administration in the past for transporting of spurious milk products.
The action was taken after receiving a tip off regarding spurious milk product been transported from Mor Bazar Gwalior in the night on Tuesday.