Know which market in Delhi has been selling fake Maruti and Tata Motors’ products!

In a bid to curb the sale of counterfeit goods in the market, the Delhi Police has seized fake products of auto majors Maruti Suzuki and Tata Motors from Delhi’s Kashmere Gate market in December last year. A tip-off by investigating agency, Enforcers of Intellectual Property Rights (EIPR), helped the police to seize products in two separate raids.

“It took us at least 15 days before we could confirm that the shop was selling counterfeit products of Maruti Suzuki and Tata Motors,” said Gulfaraz Makani, director of EIPR.

According to the First Information Report (FIR) filed by the agency, the officials found out that several markets in North Delhi have been involved in sale and distribution of fake auto spare parts. “During the market survey in North areas of Delhi, above companies’ logo and its artwork, which is similarly deceptive to companies’ original logo and artwork registered under the Copyright of the aforementioned company and at the same time, they are causing wrongful gain to themselves and wrongful loss to the above company as well as the general public,” read the report.

It further stated, “…In addition to the fiscal loss, the reputation of above company has suffered badly in the eyes of the public. I can point out the places where the counterfeit products of above company are kept for sale and distribution. The aforesaid offence also amounts to cheating. Further, above company has not authorized any party to reproduce or to use their logo or brand of their respective products.”

The raid seized over 1200 spare parts which included Tata Motors’ clutch plates, clutch plates with plastic box, the brand’s stickers along with tapes. In the second raid, police recovered 46 fake Maruti goods such as clutch plates and outer box covers.

The raids were carried out on December 30, 2015. Till date, the EIPR has conducted over 40 such raids every year and has been recovering fake products of major brands in the auto segment. Currently, the agency has Mercedes Benz, Tata Motors, Maruti Suzuki and Mahindra & Mahindra on board.

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