Delhi Police Crime Branch busts fake Sensodyne toothpaste manufacturing unit in unhygienic conditions, accused Hari Om Mishra and others arrested

Officers from the Delhi Police Crime Branch on Thursday dismantled an illegal counterfeit toothpaste manufacturing unit using the reputed Sensodyne brand in outer Delhi’s Khanjawala area. The police arrested the alleged operator and seized thousands of fake products, along with production machinery.

Acting on a tip-off, the Crime Branch’s ER-1 team raided a godown in C-Block, Mahaveer Vihar, Khanjawala, on Thursday. There, six labourers were found filling empty Sensodyne tubes with locally prepared blue-coloured paste using filling and sealing machines in what police described as unhygienic conditions. The racket produced fake toothpaste and packaged it in Sensodyne-branded tubes and packets.

The operation was allegedly run by Hari Om Mishra, 58, a resident of Sector-2, Rohini, who had rented the premises. Mishra was arrested at the scene and is accused of running the unit without any licence, bills or authorisation documents. During interrogation, he reportedly admitted to filling branded tubes with the counterfeit paste and supplying the products to the local market.

The Delhi Police Crime Branch highlighted the bust on social media, stating: “Counterfeit Sensodyne unit exposed by ER-1, Crime Branch. Thousands of fake tubes, raw paste & machinery seized. Mastermind arrested. Unhygienic production posed serious health risks to consumers.”

Items seized during the raid included, approximately 1,800 filled fake Sensodyne toothpaste tubes, more than 10,000 empty tubes, over 1,200 packed tubes, around 130 kg of blue-coloured raw paste stored in drums. The police also found large quantities of packaging materials, including boxes, caps, wrappers, adhesive tapes bearing the Sensodyne brand name, glue and heating guns, and filling, sealing and other production machinery.

A senior police officer said, “The seized goods were worth several lakhs and posed serious health risks due to unhygienic manufacturing conditions.”

A case has been registered at the Crime Branch police station under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Copyright Act. Further investigation is underway.

The raid forms part of a wider crackdown on counterfeit consumer goods in the capital. On the same day, officers separately dismantled a racket in Dwarka involved in repackaging expired food and beverage products.

Written by OpIndia Staff
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