Coimbatore: Sleuths attached to the Intellectual Property Right Enforcement Cell have arrested a 35-year-old shop owner for misusing a brand name to sell electric wires. They also have seized electric wires worth Rs 14.50 lakh from him.
An investigation officer said the fraud came to light when Rajkumar, a staff with IKON Outsourcing Private Limited, New Delhi, conducted a marketing survey for V-Guard at Kattoor and surrounding areas in the city on Friday. “He visited Bhagwati Electricals shop and found non-branded wires were being sold in the name of V-Guard,” the officer said.
Immediately, Rajkumar lodged a complaint with the district chapter of the Intellectual Property Right Enforcement Cell, which registered a case against the shop owner, Anoop Singh, 35, a native of Rajasthan, under Sections 486 (selling goods marked with a counterfeit property mark) and 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code and 51 (b) (i) read with 63 (a) of the Copy Right Act, 1957, and arrested him.