India, May 8 -- The Punjab agriculture and farmers welfare department on Thursday busted an illegal fertiliser and pesticide packaging unit operating from a residential property in Narain Nagar, Faridkot.

The unit was found functioning without any valid licence or permission and a large quantity of expired and suspected spurious agri-inputs was recovered from the site, officials said.

Acting on credible inputs, a team of the agriculture department, in the presence of police, raided a house in Narain Nagar and found that Rajinder Sethi, the owner of the premises, was allegedly running the illegal operation despite his fertiliser retail licence for Faridkot district having expired.

According to officials, the accused was reportedly sourc...