Hapur Police Bust Counterfeit Agrochemical Packaging Racket

Hapur, May 02, 2025 — In a joint operation conducted by the Hapur Police and the District Agriculture Department, a large cache of counterfeit agrochemical packaging was seized from a private residence in New Kasimpura, Hapur. The illegal stock included empty containers and wrappers falsely bearing the trademarks of several leading companies, including Dhanuka Agritech, Syngenta, FMC, Bayer CropScience, UPL, and Corteva.

The raid, initiated following a formal complaint by Premchandra Sharma, Assistant Manager at True Buddy Consulting Pvt. Ltd., acting on behalf of the affected companies, uncovered three rooms filled with duplicate materials intended for the sale of spurious agrochemical products. Preliminary investigations revealed that the premises were rented without proper documentation.

It has also come to light that in New Kasimpura, empty packaging and wrappers from products of several agri-input companies were being misused to sell counterfeit products. Upon receiving this information, the District Agriculture Officer was immediately alerted, and a team was promptly formed to conduct a raid. The operation was carried out by Sub-Inspector Jitendra Kumar from Hapur Nagar Police Station. 

Authorities have registered a case under the relevant sections of the Copyright Act 1957 and Trademark Act 1999, and further legal proceedings are underway. The companies involved urge farmers and retailers to purchase only from authorised distributors and report any suspicious products.

Once again, the trust of India’s farmers has been betrayed. In villages where hope sprouts with every seed, a silent crime has been unfolding—fake pesticides, manufactured and packaged to deceive, were being sold to the very hands that till our land and feed our people. In the recent raid conducted in Hapur, a massive consignment of counterfeit pesticide packets was seized—yet no firm action has been taken against the kingpins of this criminal network.

The counterfeit products, designed to resemble trusted brands, were being pushed into rural markets just ahead of the cropping season. If left unchecked, these could have devastated fields, destroyed harvests, and driven farmers deeper into debt and despair.