December 02, 2008

Nagpur trader nabbed for selling fake TATA Agrico products

TNN reported that Nagpur police have arrested a trader for selling and stocking goods worth close to INR 0.1 million illegally embossed with the logo of TATA Steel in raids carried out by the crime branch and the brand protection team of TATA Steel. Police said that Mr Vaswani, owner of Ashok Hardware, was selling items that illegally bore TATA Steel's logo, which misled customers and caused losses to the company.

As per report, the team initially found 25 crowbars with TATA Steel's logo at Ashok Hardware. Further investigations revealed that the crowbars were manufactured locally and the logo was fake. The team also raided Ashok Hardware's godown and found 200 illegally branded iron buckets. The police team raided another godown at Wadi and seized 600 fake TATA Steel crowbars.

The report cited Mr Suhail Qureshi country manager brand protection of TATA Steel as saying that such actions would continue in the future as well.