Pilibhit: Five traders were charged for allegedly selling counterfeit cosmetic and cleaning products of leading brands following a joint raid by a private intelligence team and local police on Wednesday evening.Acting on a tip-off, the Bihar-based Alfa Intelligence Service, led by research officer Sanjeet Kumar Paswan, conducted coordinated searches at multiple shops across the city. “During the operation, large quantities of suspected counterfeit goods were seized after the shop owners—Ayush Agarwal, Kashif Bakhsh, Pradeep Kumar (1), Pradeep Kumar (2), and Mukesh Babu—failed to produce valid purchase documents,” said Kotwali police station SHO Satyendra Kumar.Police said efforts are underway to trace the manufacturing units behind the products and identify their supply chain.Based on Paswan’s complaint, an FIR was registered under sections 63 and 65 of the Copyright (Amendment) Act, 1957, and sections 103 and 104 of the Trademark Act, 1999. SHO Kumar said that samples of the seized products have been sent for laboratory testing.
