MUMBAI: The crime branch of the city police arrested a 30-year-old Thane resident for making and selling a fake herbal bust-enlargement cream under the label of two well-known brands. The police have seized the cream manufacturing machines as well as ready-to-sell cream collectively valued at Rs 24.48 lakh. The accused, Narayan Mera alias Patel, is married and has two children, said the police. “The complainant belongs to one of the companies whose name was used to sell the product. The accused, a resident of Daya Nagar in Thane West, would travel to Gaikwad Nagar in Malwani and manufacture the cream there. He had taken a room on rent in a chawl and would distribute the product from there,” said a police officer. The accused was actively involved in this business for the last couple of months. The cops are yet to calculate the total quantity of fake cream manufactured and circulated in the market. They said they were not aware of any complaints about side effects of using fake creams. “Patel’s aide, who is a prime suspect in the case, is on the run. Patel has told us during interrogation that his associate would bring different creams to the Malwani room where Patel would again carry out a process of mixing the creams. He claimed that he would just do filling and packing of creams but we are not going by his statement only. We are probing the case from all the angles,” said the police. Parshuram Kakad, in-charge of crime branch (Control), said, “We have seized two types of creams. We also seized a well known company’s printer cartridges from the room.” The samples of the creams have been sent the Food and Drug Administration’s laboratory for analysis and identification. “The companies, whose names were being used, in fact, do not manufacture any bust-enlargement cream. However, the accused had used these companies’ names and similar packing style to mislead potential buyers and sell it in the open market,” said police sources. The accused, during the interrogation, has told the police that they would supply the creams to shops in south Mumbai. Police suspect that these creams might also have been sold in the western suburbs. “We are trying to arrest Patel’s associate. Once we nab him, we will be able to join the dots,” said Kakad.