Kanpur: It has been reported that three people with 1.25 crore QR codes, 10 lakh lids and 40 lakh washers have been arrested by the police. They used to sell a bottle full of spurious liquor as a branded one.
Their value is being said to be more than two crores. Additional Chief Secretary Home and DGP have announced a reward of one lakh rupees each to SP Outer for the arrest.
According to the SP, this is the biggest seizure in the state. With the help of 1.25 crore QR codes, a cache of spurious liquor could be brought to the market.
IG Range Prashant Kumar said that on March 25, Rajeev Kumar Gupta, a resident of Fatehpur, was arrested in Maharajpur with 25 thousand lids of branded liquor bottles and 50 thousand QR codes.
A police team was formed under the leadership of Under trainee CO Srishti Singh to trace the gang.
During interrogation, it was found that fake QR code and lid factory is running in Nagloi, Delhi.
STF, Excise team also engaged with Outer Police. Police teams from Etawah and Auraiya were also sent to Delhi for raids.
SP Outer Ajit Sinha said that Virendra Kumar Rai, resident of 136 Gali Punjabi Basti Ghati New Delhi, Mukesh Kumar Mittal of VAH East Shalimar Bagh and Ashok Kumar Chauhan were arrested.
Virendra and Mukesh are partners. Their factory runs at Delhi's Nagloi. Ashok used to work with them earlier. Now he set up factory at Delhi's Shastrinagar Sarai Rohella in Delhi.
A cache of QR codes and lids were recovered on raids in both the factories.Together, branded liquor with 1.25 QR codes, one million lids, 40 sacks of washer inside the body lid and 16 machines have been recovered.
There are 1 lakh washers in a sack. In this way, 10 lakh washers were recovered. Supplies were reaching various districts and other states.
