The toners were meant to be exported to Japan, Belgium, Germany, Spain and UK for meeting online orders, a police official said
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A 32-year-old man has been arrested here for allegedly manufacturing duplicate toners of prominent printer brands, police said on Thursday.
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Stock and equipment worth Rs 2.74 crore were seized, they added.
The toners were meant to be exported to Japan, Belgium, Germany, Spain and UK for meeting online orders, a police official said.
Acting on a tip-off, Unit 10 of the city crime branch conducted a raid at an industrial unit in Motilal Nagar No 2 in suburban Goregaon on Wednesday, he said.
Duplicate toners bearing brand names and logos of two prominent companies, boxes, stickers, a computer and a thermal printer, valued at Rs 2.74 crore altogether, were seized from the unit and its owner Vipul S Sandha was arrested, he said.
A case was registered under IPC sections 420 (cheating), 468 (forgery) and the Copyright Act. Further probe was on, the official said.
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