Company in soup for making fake chocolate
Lasudia policeregistered acase against a chocolate companyfor manufacturingduplicate branded chocolateshere on Wednesday. Local Kemko Company has been booked under the Copyright Act for manufacturing duplicate chocolate. TI of Lasudia police station, Azim Khan said early on Wednesday morning, that they received a complaint from Anil Tiwari, who was representing a multinational chocolate company against a local company for manufacturing duplicate product.Following the complaint, a team of police personnel, along with official of food and drug department, were sent to Dewas Naka. The team raided the local company. “During raid we have seized huge amount of duplicate products of Centre Fresh and other popular brands and huge amount of raw material from the company,” Khan said adding that when team reached the spot, several people were working in the company. Later it was found that company was functioning for the last two years. They had been changing the spellings of the brand names on the wrapper to confuse the customers. The rest of the details on the wrapper were kept intact as the original brand.All the material in the company has been seized and company was seal. Sample of the seized items have been sent to lab for testing. Police said after receiving report from the lab, cases will be registered against company owner.
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