Hyderabad: City taskforce sleuths along with Malakpet police raided a house in Moosarambagh on Saturday and arrested two persons for selling fake soap and tea powder.
Acting on specific alert from the representatives of a popular soap brand, police teams raided a house at East Prashant Nagar in Moosarambagh. Police seized 67 cartons of soap and also seized spurious tea powder.
Police arrested two persons, Rakesh Jain and Mahaveer Jain for operating the racket. Based on the information obtained from the duo, police raided two other places in Malakpet market and Jeedimetla and seized two machines which were used in manufacturing the fake product.
“We have seized two machines, packaging material, empty cartons, fake soaps of a popular brand and spurious tea powder. The accused were filling the spurious tea powder in cartons of popular brands for sale in the city,” Malakpet police said, adding that the house in Moosarambagh was being used as a godown to carry out their illegal activities.
