Cuttack: Police busted a fake tea manufacturing unit operating at Mukameswar village under Sadar Police Station in Cuttack Wednesday.
Acting swiftly on a lead from a similar case earlier, a police team conducted raids at Mukameswar village. They seized a huge quantity of powder, duplicate labels of many branded tea companies, tea-processing machines and raw materials were also seized from the place.
One person has been detained in this connection for questioning.
Earlier the cops here also seized various duplicate eatables and other products including fake honey, Ganges water, sauces, spices, edible oil, turmeric powder and ghee. Several manufacturing units had also been busted in the city.
In December, a joint team of Commissionerate Police and food inspecting officials of Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) had recovered more than one quintal of synthetic paneer from a bus during a raid.
The officials of Chauliaganj police station and CMC seized the spurious paneer while it was being transported from Kolkata to Cuttack in the private bus.
PNN