Drive against food adulteration in Berhampur by Badabazar Police
Odishabarta
Berhampur: On the allegation of packaging of substandard quality of Ghee in the brand name of “DURGA” and selling the same to the consumers for illegal gain.
On Wednesday evening by the instruction of SP Berhampur,Pinak Mishra and proper follow-Ups by ASP,Prabhat Routray a drive was conducted against food adulteration in Berhampur city,
Following the direction the Badabazar police station IIC, Prashant Bhupati with his team has successfully detected one illegally packaging unit cum-godown owned by E.Rajeswar Patro at Khandia Kumuti Sahi.
During the search they found 07 Cartoons of such duplicate adulterated Durga brand Ghee (Total 140 Liters), 10 gunny bags of packing materials i.e. Printed Rolls of Durga Labels have been seized from the manufacturing unit.
Over telephone, SDPO(City) B.Pati confirmed the accused E.Rajeswar Patro of Housing Board Colony is already in Jail custody against Badabazar P.S Case no 21/2021.Prayer to remand him in the above noted case is being submitted.
In this connection case no. 26 dt. 27.01.2021 u/s-272/273/420 IPC r/w sec-51/52/53/56/57/59/63 of Food Safety and Standards Act/ 16 of Prevention of Food Adulteration Act 2006 and Sec. 103/104 of Trademarks Act 1999 has been registered and investigation is going on.
