BIS raids hallmarking pick up centre in Zaveri Bazaar

Seizes huge quantity of forged hallmarked jewellery

In an operation conducted jointly by the office of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) and the Mumbai Police, a large quantity of forged hallmarked jewellery was recovered from a pick up centre of jewellery hallmarking in Zaveri Bazaar here today.

Normally, small jewellers assign the hallmarking job to some private and individual consultants on commission basis called pick up. Such pick ups collect jewellery from the manufacturers and deliver them back after hallmarking. Large and organised sector jewellers, however, do hallmarking on their own.

This is perhaps the first raid on such a large scale by the BIS on jewellers since