Dabur 8216;altered8217; manufacturing dates

Dabur Nepal8217;s Chief Executive Officer Udayan Ganguli and factory manager Indranil Gupta went to the CIAA office for the second time for submitting explanation on the alleged irregularity,they said.

They also provided bank guarantee worth Rs 50 million to the CIAA as per its directive as both the top comnany executives are foreigners.

After carrying out a raid,CIAA last month had seized 74,000 cartons of Real brand juice worth Rs 80 million from its factory in Bara district in southern Nepal for allegedly altering manufacturing dates.

The raid by CIAA comes after months of smear campaign by a section of Nepalese media against the Indian joint venture.

Dabur Nepal,the manufacturer of soft drinks and herbal beauty products is a leading Indian joint venture in Nepal established some two decades ago. Dabur has been providing direct employment to over 1,000 local employees.