Hapur, May 01, 2025 : In a joint operation conducted by the Hapur
Police and the District Agriculture
Department, a large cache of counterfeit
agrochemical packaging was seized from a private residence in New
Kasimpura, Hapur. The illegal stock included empty containers and wrappers
falsely bearing the trademarks of several leading companies, including Dhanuka Agritech, Syngenta, FMC, Bayer
CropScience, UPL, and Corteva.
The raid, initiated following a formal complaint by Premchandra Sharma, Assistant Manager at
True Buddy Consulting Pvt. Ltd., acting on behalf of the affected
companies, uncovered three rooms filled with duplicate materials intended for
the sale of spurious agrochemical products. Preliminary investigations revealed
that the premises were rented without proper documentation.
It has
also come to light that in New Kasimpura, empty packaging and wrappers from
products of several agri-input companies were being misused to sell counterfeit
products. Upon receiving this information, the District Agriculture Officer was
immediately alerted, and a team was promptly formed to conduct a raid. The
operation was carried out by Sub-Inspector
Jitendra Kumar from Hapur Nagar Police Station.
Authorities
have registered a case under the relevant sections of the Copyright Act 1957
and Trademark Act 1999, and further legal proceedings are underway. The
companies involved urge farmers and retailers to purchase only from authorised
distributors and report any suspicious products.
Once
again, the trust of India’s farmers has been betrayed. In villages where hope
sprouts with every seed, a silent crime has been unfolding—fake pesticides,
manufactured and packaged to deceive, were being sold to the very hands that
till our land and feed our people. In the recent raid conducted in Hapur, a
massive consignment of counterfeit pesticide packets was seized—yet no firm
action has been taken against the kingpins of this criminal network.
The
counterfeit products, designed to resemble trusted brands, were being pushed
into rural markets just ahead of the cropping season. If left unchecked, these
could have devastated fields, destroyed harvests, and driven farmers deeper
into debt and despair.