Is it legal to sell branded surplus in india?

Radhey (Querist) 28 January 2013 This query is : Resolved
Garments are bought from exporter's/export house surplus and sold further into the Indian market. without label's being cut out. If its illegal then what's the legal way of reselling surplus??

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Plz. see what Wikileaks says:-------

Illegal trade of Export surplus garments
« on: November 14, 2011, 05:39:46 PM »
Labelled demand and its banned supply

The need for export surplus garments is increasing at an alarming rate; expanding its illegal production in the textile industry; investigates Laxmi Punjabi.
Host of shopaholics in Mumbai; love to purchase their apparels from street stalls and retail shops at Lokhandwala, Colaba causeway, Hill road, Fashion Street and Linking road. A majority of these include western clothes— jeans, t-shirts, capris, jackets, skirts, trousers and so forth. An outsized fraction of these is ‘export surplus’ goods. These outfits are designed by western brands and ordered for tailoring in India. Famous brands like Pepe, GAP, Abercrombie, Sasha, Zara, MNG, Golf Women etc, are a part of it.
‘Surplus’ of the export
Defected pieces, inferior quality or discarded dressmaking come under export surplus. One of the shop owners at

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