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Delhi: Police arrest seven for manufacturing spurious lubricating engine oil

The Delhi Police crime branch has arrested seven men for allegedly manufacturing and selling spurious lubricating engine oil. The cops recovered oil, packing materials including other goods worth Rs 14 lakh from its premises.

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Updated Aug 10, 2022, 00:06 IST

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Delhi: The Delhi Police crime branch has arrested seven men for allegedly manufacturing and selling spurious lubricating engine oil. The cops recovered oil, packing materials including other goods worth Rs 14 lakh from its premises, The Indian Express reported.

The police said the owner of the unit, Vivek Tyagi (37) was earlier employed as an accountant in an oil company where he had learnt about the duplicate lubricant trade. All six labourers at the unit have been apprehended.

“The accused Vivek Tyagi had started his own business after earlier working as an accountant. He bought raw oil from a person named Umesh Jain in Mundka, and packaging materials such as bottles and stickers from a man named Pappu, who resides in Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar,” said Deputy commissioner of police (crime branch) Rajesh Deo as quoted by the Indian Express.

The police said that 1,180 900-ml bottles of spurious oil under the name of a reputed brand were recovered along with 8,700 40-ml pouches of another brand. Five 200-litre drums of used raw engine oil were also recovered, along with large amounts of empty bottles, packaging materials, stickers, and packaging machines, police further said.

The police said a case was filed under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 420 (cheating) 468 (forgery for cheating) 471 (using forged document as genuine) 482 (using false property mark) 483 (counterfeiting property mark) 486 (selling goods with counterfeit mark) 487 (false mark on goods receptacle) along with Copyright Act Sections 63 (infringement of copyright) and 65 (plates for purpose of making infringing copies).

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