Police have raided the premises of a dealer of counterfeit Epson ink bottles in Goregaon, Mumbai, with four arrested.
Bhimji Hathihayi, owner of the Rinkal stationery store that sold the counterfeit ink bottles, was arrested, along with Kalpesh and Bhavesh Patel, of Ambika Computers, which acted as the stockist, and Arvind Chamariya aka Pravin, partner of the bottling unit in Goregaon, Tech Vorm reported.
Large quantities of Epson ink bottles, holograms, stickers and packaging were also seized, and the four were charged with infringing the IP rights of the OEM. Mumbai police arrested a reseller in July for selling counterfeit HP toner cartridges, with 12 seized during that arrest.
Epson said the Mumbai police had been “extremely efficient in curbing this issue of infringement” and that the manufacturer “takes great pride in maintaining an exceptional standard of ethics, while expecting related parties to show adequate respect for its rights”.