Mumbai Police Bust Milk Adulteration Racket in Dahisar and Andheri, Arrest 4
The Mumbai police crime branch has arrested four men after raiding a milk adulteration operation in Dahisar earlier this week. The racket involved printing fake brand logos of popular milk suppliers, including Amul and Gokul, on empty plastic pouches before filling them with diluted and adulterated milk for sale to unsuspecting consumers.
Among those taken into custody is the alleged main accused, Telangana native Ramullu Boddupalli, who was arrested from Andheri. According to police officers, Boddupalli had set up an illegal unit at Waliv Phata in Vasai and had been running the operation since 2021. He had purchased a printer worth ₹10 lakh to manufacture empty plastic pouches bearing counterfeit logos of brands such as Amul Taaza, Amul Gold, and Gokul.
Investigators revealed that Boddupalli printed at least 1,000 pouches with fake logos every day, selling each pouch to distributors for ₹2.5 and generating daily earnings of ₹2,500.
Acting on a specific tip-off, crime branch officers conducted a raid in Dahisar and arrested milk distributor Bhiksmaya Ghanta. Police found that Ghanta was adulterating milk by adding one litre of water to every single litre of milk before filling the contents into the pouches supplied by Boddupalli.
"The accused drained genuine milk pouches by making a small hole and resealed them after filling the pouches with adulterated milk. They also filled adulterated milk in pouches supplied by the main accused," said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Navnath Dhavale.
Two additional suspects involved in the scam, identified as Saidulu Jangali and Yadayya Batullu, were arrested from Kurar. During the crackdown, crime branch officers seized the ₹10 lakh printing machine, along with milk stock and pouches carrying labels of Amul Taaza, Amul Gold, and Gokul.
The four accused have been booked under sections 274, 345, 347, 318, and 336 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, along with provisions of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006.
