Fake Apple items worth Rs 13.8L seized
4 stores in Geeta Mandir found selling these as original after pasting stickers.
Officials of the Prevention of Crime Branch (PCB) raided four shops in the mobile market at Geeta Mandir and seized a huge consignment of duplicate products of Apple brand worth around Rs 13.8 lakh.
The team was on patrol in Geeta Mandir area on Friday when they received a tip-off about sale of duplicate products of the brand at four mobile phone shops in the area. They went and raided the stores— Core Telecom, Parmeshwari Mobile Accessories, Shree Nagnechi Mobile Accessories and Bhavani Mobile Accessories.
They found that duplicate products being sold as original after pasting stickers of the brand. Subsequently, the store owners were booked under relevant sections of IPC and under the Copyright Act by Kagadapith police.
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