Chandigarh, May 8 -- The Punjab agriculture and farmers welfare department on Thursday busted an illegal fertiliser and pesticide packaging unit operating from a residential property in Narain Nagar, Faridkot. The unit was found functioning without any valid licence or permission and a large quantity of expired and suspected spurious agri-inputs was recovered from the site, officials said. Acting on credible inputs, a team of the agriculture department, in the presence of police, raided a house in Narain Nagar and found that Rajinder Sethi, the owner of the premises, was allegedly running the illegal operation despite his fertiliser retail licence for Faridkot district having expired. According to officials, the accused was reportedly sourcing agricultural inputs from M/s Amravati Agro Corp, Nalagarh, in Himachal Pradesh, which has also come under departmental scrutiny. During the raid, the team collected 18 fertiliser samples for laboratory testing. They also recovered two batches of expired fertilisers and eight expired pesticide products. Investigators further discovered unmarked and open bags suspected to contain spurious fertiliser, along with equipment used for illegal repackaging. Following a complaint from the agriculture department, police registered an FIR against Sethi....