SAMBHAL: Amid increase in the demand of masks due to coronavirus outbreak, a man has been booked for allegedly black marketing and selling sub-standard masks, the Uttar Pradesh police said on Wednesday.
The FIR was registered against Vivek Kumar on Tuesday after a district administration team found him selling sub-standard masks and also black marketing them, in Babrala locality of Gunnaur area here, Superintendent of Police Yamuna Prasad said.
Police have recovered 500 masks made of cloth from him, he said.
Uttar Pradesh has so far recorded 16 cases, including one foreigner as the number of cases across the country, rose to 147 on Wednesday, according to the Union Health Ministry.