Dandy. The Agriculture Department official has busted a wire company’s factory manufacturing fake pesticide Notivo drug in a house in front of the city’s power grid on the Banka-Dhakamod main road. In this raid, fake medicines worth more than Rs 1 crore of the said company have been recovered. In this case, the investigator of the wire company, Ranjit Kumar, had complained to the District Agriculture Officer about selling fake pesticides in the name of the said company in the city. After which, on the instructions of DAO Deepak Kumar, a three-member team of the department along with the local police officer raided the said house. From where a huge quantity of packets of fake pesticides and chemicals used by the said company, wrappers and packing machines etc. have been recovered. After which, with the help of the police, the factory operator Kunjbihari Sah has been arrested. In this regard, the company’s investigator said that information was received about fake pesticides being made in the brand name of wire companies in a house in front of Shitala Sthan temple in Karhariya Mohalla of the city. On which the raid campaign was conducted under the leadership of Assistant Director Plant Protection Sujit Kumar Pal, Sub-Divisional Agriculture Officer Pankaj Kumar, Block Agriculture Officer Anil Baitha, who were included in the team formed. By raiding the factory, a large quantity of about 6,500 packets filled with insecticide named Nativo of wire company, about 5500 empty wrappers, about 85 kg of used chemicals in three sacks and packing machines etc. have been recovered. The manager further said that the Kushwaha Agricultural Center shop located near Dudhari Chowk was also raided and 10 packets of medicine were recovered. In this, a case was registered in Sadar police station against shopkeeper Videshwari Panjiara, resident of Dudhari village and fake medicine factory operator Kunjbihari Sah. It is being told that apart from the district, the said fake pesticide was being supplied indiscriminately to other districts also. Assistant Director of Plant Protection, who was part of the raid team, has said that as per the MRP of the fake medicine in the name of the seized company, medicines worth more than Rs 1 crore have been recovered. On the other hand, in the entire matter, Sadar Police Station Head Rakesh Kumar said that on the written application given by the wire company’s investigator Ranjit Kumar, an FIR has been registered against two persons under the Copy Right Act. The factory operator has been arrested in this. While raids are being conducted to arrest others.
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