Kanpur. Police have arrested three people with 1.25 crore QR codes, 10 lakh lids and 40 lakh washers used to sell a bottle full of fake liquor as a branded one. Their value is being said to be more than two crores. Additional Chief Secretary Home and DGP have announced a reward of one lakh rupees each to SP Outer for the arrest. According to the SP, this is the biggest seizure in the state. With the help of 1.25 crore QR codes, a cache of spurious liquor could be brought to the market.
IG Range Prashant Kumar said that on March 25, Rajeev Kumar Gupta, a resident of Fatehpur, was arrested in Maharajpur with 25 thousand lids of branded liquor bottles and 50 thousand QR codes. A police team was formed under the leadership of Undertrainee CO Srishti Singh to find the gang. During interrogation, it was found that fake QR code and lid factory is running in Nagloi, Delhi. STF, Excise team also engaged with Outer Police. Police teams from Etawah and Auraiya were also sent to Delhi for raids. SP Outer Ajit Sinha said that Virendra Kumar Rai, resident of 136 Gali Punjabi Basti Ghati New Delhi, Mukesh Kumar Mittal of VAH East Shalimar Bagh and Ashok Kumar Chauhan were arrested. Virendra and Mukesh are partners. Their factory is running in Nagloi Delhi. Ashok used to work with them earlier. Now Shastrinagar Sarai Rohella had set up its factory in Delhi. When raids were conducted in both the factories, a cache of QR codes and lids were recovered.
what was recovered
Together, QR codes of 1.25 crore branded liquor, one million lids, 40 sacks of washer inside the body lid and 16 machines have been recovered from both the factories. There are 1 lakh washers in a sack. In this way 10 lakh washers were recovered.
Supply was being done in other states
According to SP Outer, apart from Kanpur, they were supplied in Hamirpur, Gorakhpur, Varanasi, Fatehpur. From here we were supplying to many states including Pondicherry, Bangalore, Karnataka, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh.
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