India, July 3 -- The Delhi Police on Friday busted an organised food tampering racket operating out of an industrial unit in Okhla Phase-II, arresting seven people, including the owner of the company, and seizing expired food and beverage products worth over Rs.20 lakh that were allegedly repackaged and sold with manipulated expiry dates, police said.

Deputy commissioner of police (south east) Hemant Tiwari said that the accused allegedly "procured near-expiry and expired products of leading brands at throwaway prices, erased their original manufacturing and expiry dates using chemical thinners, and printed fresh dates before repackaging them with fake nutrition labels, barcodes and MRP stickers".

The raid was conducted jointly by the p...