Two persons were arrested by Hanumanganj police for selling rip-off LED TV sets in the name of branded LED TV sets and seized electronic goods worth Rs 1.5 lakh from their possession.
After receiving complaint by official of Crown company which deals in LED TV manufacturing Hanumanganj police tracked an loading auto-rickshaw and recovered 23 locally made LED TV sets.
According to police, the police have arrested two persons Ashok Puraswani (50) Bairagarh and Lalbabu Thakur (49) of Krishna Nagar in Bairagarh Kalan.
The mastermind who is the kingpin, owns an electronic showroom Baba Electricals in Bairagarh. He deals in electronic goods but not authorized dealer of Crown Company and still he sell locally made LED TV sets by using stickers of the company. The aide of Ashok works for him at the shop and is identified as Lalbabu. He used to deliver the products.
On Sunday, the complainant Amit Jaggi of Atlas Radio Traders company of Mumbai is assigned to investigate lodged complaint and later ordered 16 LED TV sets of Rs 5,200 and asked them accused to deliver them to Dawa Bazaar area where goods were seized.
Lalbabu Thakur when reached to deliver in a loading auto bearing registration number MP04LC9577 was nabbed by the police team and when checked by company officials LED TV sets were found duplicate. The shop was also raided at Bairagarh and seized 7 more duplicate LED TV sets. Police registered a case under sections 42 and 468 of the IPC and 63 and 65 of the IT Act.