Last week, the Hyderabad police arrested Rakesh Jain and Mahaveer Jain for allegedly manufacturing and selling fake Mysore Sandal soaps based on inputs from the Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Limited (KSDL) – the rightful manufacturers of Mysore Sandal soaps.

Speaking to the Indian Express, the managing director of the KSDL, Prashanth said, “We suspect that the loss incurred by our company owing to the fake manufacturers is about Rs 500-600 crore, as they were operating in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and the Hyderabad-Karnataka region for nearly a decade.”

According to reports, a few days ago, Karnataka Industries Minister M B Patil, who is also the KSDL chairman, received an anonymous message about fake Mysore Sandal soaps being sold in Hyderabad. Thereafter, the staff of the firm’s authorised sales office in Secunderabad bought fake products worth Rs 5 lakh and got them tested. However, there was no proper information about the manufacturers.

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