Acting on a tip off, Special Task Force (STF), Uttarakhand arrested two persons - Mohammad Arif, native of Saharanpur (Uttar Pradesh) and Mohit Kumar, native of Haryana, from Clement Town with spurious food materials worth lakhs of rupees from their possession on Sunday. Additional SP, STF, Ajay Singh said that STF had received a tip off about some persons carrying spurious food materials reaching Dehradun. A team led by inspector Sandeep Negi and other members- sub-inspector Ashutosh Singh, head constable- Ved Prakash Bhatt, constables -Sanjay Kumar, Virendra Nautiyal, Sudhir, Kailash and Anup, was formed and they began searching for the suspects.
Singh said that team members on Sunday succeeded in arresting the accused. In course of interrogation, the accused are learnt to have admitted their offence and said that they were involved in supply of spurious food items for the last one year. It must be written here that people were making regular complaints these kinds of activities in this area.
They used to bring such items from Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi to Dehradun and supply it in Vikasnagar, Rishikesh and Uttarkashi areas.
A case under section 63 of copyright Act, 5/22 Copta Act and 420 of IPC has been registered against the accused in Clement Town Police Station, he added.