mumbai mumbai police crime branch control has busted two allegedly spurious paneer manufacturing units at badlapur and bhiwandi seized 2131kg of the product and arrested seven persons police said the spurious health hazard paneer was being supplied to several restaurants and eating houses in the suburbs and south mumbai for a yearon may 6 the police first detained a tempo in chembur and seized 631kg of spurious paneer they collected paneer samples from the tempo that was to deliver it to a dairy in chembur the samples were sent to the food and drug administration fda for testing their report stated that it was spurious contained oil and was not edible said a police official following the report an fda official lodged an fir at the chembur police station on wednesday under indian penal code sections 420 cheating 272 adulteration of food or drink intended for sale and 273 sale of noxious food or drink sections of the food and safety standards act were invoked as well the crime branch control unit thereafter took over the probe pravin padwal joint commissioner of police economic offences wing said we have arrested seven accused in this case and they have been remanded in police custody for five days further investigation is on the crime branch control unit of the eow mumbai will carry out effective cases against food adulteration with fdas help police inspector nitin patil said we raided two factories yeshoda organic food in badlapur and disha diary in bhiwandiand arrested their owners police personnel rohit sawant ganesh doiphode and bharat kharvi seized 95 containers containing palm oil milk powder and paneer from the two factories the average price of original malai paneer is around rs 400 per kg spurious paneer was sold for rs 200250 they would use milk powder instead of milk and add palm oil or any low quality oil to prepare it said a cop one factory would sell around 2000kg of paneer per day said investigators