Two arrested for selling spurious fertiliser in Faisalabad

TPolice claimed on Monday to have arrested two dealers for selling fake fertiliser.

Deputy Director Agriculture (Extension) Chaudhry Khalid Mehmood along with his team checked various fertiliser shops and found two dealers identified as Sheikh Irfan of Zamzam Corporation and Imran Imtiaz of Bhatti Dealers. The suspected dealers were selling substandard fertilisers.

The agriculture officer had sent their fertilisers samples to laboratory for analysis and the lab report confirmed that fertiliser was substandard.

On the report of DD Agriculture, the police have arrested the dealers and locked them behind bars. Further investigation was underway.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 16^th, 2021.