Hyderabad: In yet another crackdown on counterfeit mineral water units, food safety officials and Task Force police on Saturday raided three illegal water bottling plants in the city and seized fake bottled water worth 3.34 lakh. They also nabbed three persons.
The operation, conducted across Chandrayangutta, Santosh Nagar, and Kanchanbagh, has revealed a sophisticated racket of manufacturing and distributing counterfeit versions of popular mineral water brands.
The three apprehended individuals — Mohammad Sajjad, 34, Syed Siraj, 36, and Salam bin Naser un Naqeeb, 46 — had been operating these illegal plants for several years.
