A joint team of the provincial agriculture and revenue departments unearthed a fake DAP fertilizer manufacturing factory in Baseer Pur and recovered hundreds of fake fertilizer bags and arrested two persons involved in it from the spot. The joint team also recovered sand, crush stones and other material being used by this factory for production of fake DAP.
The police concerned registered a case against two persons arrested from the scene on the application of Assistant Commissioner Depalpur who headed the joint team during the raid. Samples of fertilizer recovered from the factory were also sent to the laboratory for its chemical analysis by the provincial agriculture department. A spokesman of the Punjab Agriculture Department said on Friday that a joint campaign has been launched by the provincial agriculture department and provincial revenue department to unearth those involved in heinous business of manufacturing and selling of fake fertilisers and pesticides.