Khammam/Hyderabad, Aug 9 (Hydnow): the Task Force and Khammam Rural Police apprehended five persons, including two minors, allegedly selling duplicate Sony brand LED smart television in Khammam Rural Mandal.
Speaking to the media here on Wednesday, Khammam rural ACP G.Baswa Reddy and Task Force ACP Shiva Ramaiah informed that following a top-off about two persons selling the duplicate TVs, police reached Edulapuram villae in the Mandal and caught them red-handed. They were taken into custody and questioned. Following this they confessed to police that they were from Islampur Ghasauli village in the Shamli district of Uttar Pradesh and used to sell bedsheets, gas stoves, and electrical gadgets in Hyderabad.
In order to earn more money, they bought 32 assembled smart TVs in Hyderabad and planned to sell them by fixing fake logos of Sony, Sony QR codes, and star rating stickers on the display. They took a house on rent at Edulapuram. the accused also installed software in the TVs for displaying Sony welcome messages after they were switched on. They started selling TVs for prices ranging from Rs. 15,000 to Rs, 20,000 claiming they had cards from the Army Canteen Stores Department (CSD) and that the TVs were from the Army Canteen.
The accused, Saddam, Asif, and Anus Khan were remanded to judicial custody while the two minors were produced before the Juvenile court. Cash of Rs. 2.90 lacks, 32 TVs (43 inches), a car, four scooters, pen drives, mobile phones, and one Army canteen card besides fake stickers and logos were seized from the accused. (Hydnow)
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