Overview
- The Crime Branch arrested three men and said the racket spanned Delhi and Ghaziabad, targeting the school textbook market.
- Investigators reported a total seizure of 44,862 counterfeit NCERT textbooks, including 12,755 from a Delhi godown and 32,107 from a Ghaziabad print unit.
- Two offset printing machines, paper reels, aluminium plates and ink were recovered, with machinery and materials valued at roughly ₹2 crore.
- The action flows from FIR No. 336/2025 registered under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Copyright Act, with NCERT Publication Division officials providing on-site verification.
- NCERT warned that unauthorised printing and sale of its books is a punishable offence that risks substandard content, urging purchases from authorised sources and reporting of suspected piracy.