The Commissionerate police on Sunday arrested two persons on the charge of selling duplicate water purifier spare parts in the name of a reputed brand in Cuttack city.
One Kahnu Charan was allegedly running the duplicate products racket from a rented house at Badambadi.
Getting inputs, a team of the Badambadi police raided the unit and seized a huge stock of substandard water purifier parts.
A senior police official said the accused using the labels; hologram and other packaging material of the reputed brand were selling fake products. The spurious products or purifier parts and other RO consumable kits fraudulently carrying the name of the premium brand might pose serious health hazards.
“Police got information about the duplicate assembling unit and raided the place. It was found that the fake products were sold in the name of a branded company,” said the police official.
The accused used to purchase duplicate products from different parts of the country and used to sell them after pasting labels and other packing material in the name of the premium brand. Several shop owners were also purchasing such fake purifier products with the motive to make huge profits, police said.