Cuttack: Police on Sunday unearthed a factory manufacturing fake cement in Jagatpur Industrial Estate area in Cuttack district.
The owner of the factory, identified as Lalit Jain hailing from Bhubaneswar, has been arrested.
The police seized over 7, 500 sacks of fake cement kept in the factory and some equipment used for manufacturing them.
According to police sources, the accused used to manufacture cement and pack it in bags with logos of different reputed companies and then sell it at reduced price to wholesalers and at shops. Several empty sacks of leading cement companies were also recovered from the factory premises during the raid.
The illegal activity had been going on in the area for a couple of months, the sources added.
