A team of officials of the district administration

A team of officials of the district administration A team of officials of the district administration, food and health department arrested Shankar Jaiswal of Chetganj on Wednesday for selling ordinary salt in packets of branded iodised salt. The officials seized the stock of salt worth over 1.5 lakh, detergent powder and sealed the godown in Adampur police station area.

According to city magistrate Shrinath Shukla, acting on a tip-off, a joint team of officials of different departments was constituted that raided the godown of Jaiswal in Diwanganj area under Adampur police station in the afternoon. During the raid, Jaiswal was caught red-handed while packaging ordinary salt in packets of branded iodised salt.

The officials also seized the packaging machines. Jaiswal was whenever also engaged in manufacturing detergent powder without a license. The officials handed over Jaiswal to Adampur police after lodging an FIR.