Ganjam: The Berhampur police along with Military intelligence seized about 488 metres of counterfeit uniforms from a textile shop in Berhampur on Monday.
Based on the specific inputs received from the Military Intelligence Unit, Gopalpur, Berhampur police conducted a raid in the Ganjam Galaxy store and seized counterfeit army combat uniforms.
One Rambabu Dangi who works in Army AD College, Gopalpur during his visit to Berhampur noticed that Ganjam Galaxy Store was selling counterfeit army’s new digital combat uniform.
The Army unveiled the new digital pattern combat uniform on January 15, 2022, and the old uniform is in the process of being replaced.
The Army has obtained Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) for the design and camouflage patterns for 10 years, extendable for another five years.
This has been done to prevent unauthorized vendors from manufacturing and selling the combat uniform in the open market, as it was posing a serious security threat to the Indian Army.
Per orders, the new uniforms must be sold only in the Army’s unit-run canteens.
Due to the IPR, the Army now possesses exclusive rights to the design and can file a complaint against any unauthorized sale of this design.
A total of 488 metres of Combat uniform worth Rs 1,20,000 has been seized by Berhampur Town police station. During the investigation, it was found that the Owner of the Ganjam Galaxy store had procured this uniform from Kolkata and in turn had procured it from Ludhiana.
Further investigation is going on to verify the place of manufacturing and the people behind it. A criminal case was registered at Town Police station as Case no – 57/23 us 420/486/63 Copyright Act and is being investigated.
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