A video is doing rounds on social media where people can be seen manually packing salt, lying unhygienically on the floor, in Tata Salt packets.
” Tata salt packaging
What a shame!” the caption reads.

FACT CHECK

NewsMobile fact-checked this and found a report by Hindustan Times dated Oct 11, 2019. The title of the article read, ” Factory packing, selling counterfeit products of top brands busted in Mohali”.

We checked the social media of Tata Salt for an official statement and found a post, dated October 15, 2019, on their official facebook page.

According to the statement, the viral video “pertains to a raid conducted by the Tata Salt team along with the Punjab Police against counterfeit salt operations, just last week in Dera Bassi”.
The above information clarifies that the video is not of a Tata Salt Factory.

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