This is real: Many goods in Chennai are fake
Chennai is becoming a city of fakes. While Mumbai and Delhi churn out spurious goods ranging from cosmetics and mobile phones to automobile parts, Chennai is buying them in large numbers. Enforcers of Intellectual Properties Rights (EIPR), a non-governmental organization working with police forces across the country to prevent counterfeits, says Chennai is the second largest market for fake mobile phones (after Mumbai), third for adulterated cosmetics (after Mumbai and Kolkata), and fourth for spurious automobile parts (after Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata). There has been more than a three-fold increase in the number of counterfeit cases booked by the Tamil Nadu police. The number of seizures went up from 27 in 2011 to 85 in 2012. In the first two months of this year, there have been 31 cases. P C Jha, adviser, Ficci Cascade, recently told a gathering here that 25% of fast moving consumer goods in India were spurious. “Most of the fakes are sold in the grey market, but some enter supermarkets and retail stores too,” says Prateep V Philip, ADGP, CB-CID (crime).
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