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Red Label 3 Roses tea

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Brooke Bond

If you enjoyedalong the roadside tea stalls in the vicinity of Electronic City for the last two years, you were probably sipping was fake tea. The police have arrested two brothers, selling substandard tea powder claiming it to be the Brooke Bond. The police after raiding the factory premise have recovered 2,500 kilograms of fake tea power worth Rs 11 lakh, packing machine and packing covers worth about Rs 15 lakh. The accused two along with their other brother have been operating for the last two years. They even employed minors from Rajasthan.They paid a monthly rent of Rs 21,000 for the basement of a building for their production unit. The incident came to light after the owner of a road side tea stall told the mufti police that he was getting 3 Roses tea powder for half the price than the market value. The police initially suspected that the tea powder could be stolen from a godown. They then caught hold of one of the brothers when he had come to deliver the fake tea. His interrogation resulted in the raid and recovery of theThe arrested are identified as Jagaram Lal, 40, and his brother Bhavar Lal, 26, residents of Rana Singh Pet and natives of Rajasthan. The police are on the lookout for the main accused, identified as Ramesh Lal, 32. The three brothers had taken the basement of a building in Girinagar and were running a small factory where they were packing the substandard tea powder into the duplicate packets of3 Roses. Of the three brothers, Jagaram was looking after the factory, Ramesh was managing to get the fake tea powder and the packing materials and Bhavar was going on a moped to deliver the fake tea powder.“One of our crime staff who was in mufti found out that the Brooke Bond 3 Roses tea powder was available for cheaper price. We then suspected that the accused could have stolen the 3 Roses tea powder from some godown and were selling it for cheaper prices. Through local intelligence, it was learnt that road side tea stalls on the service road of the Hosur Main Road and in the vicinity of Electronic City were getting tea powder for cheaper price. The policemen found out that the vendor would come on a moped between 5 to 6 in the evening to sell the tea powder.”,” said an officer.