The food and drugs department on Saturday seized 50 baskets of spurious mawa from the loading vehicle near the parcel office of the railway station. The cost of the consignment is stated to be Rs 4 lakh. Its sample would be sent to Bhopal based lab.
Additional District Magistrate (ADM) Shivraj Singh Verma received information about adulterated starch (Mawa) being sent to different cities of Bihar by Chambal express.
Verma got information through Whatsapp on Saturday morning that a large quantity of spurious mawa is being sent to many cities in Bihar by Chambal express. The ADM immediately directed the food and drug inspector Arvind Sharma and Reena Bansal for taking action.
The team reached the spot and found that Mawa was being unloaded from a loading vehicle to the team seized 50 baskets of mawa from the spot.
The mawa belonged to mawa trader Ashok Narwariya of Mor Bazaar. The sample of the mawa would be sent to lab for examination.
When the team was taking action to seized mawa, another loading auto-rickshaw containing adulterated Paneer reached Parcel office. Seeing the food and drug team, this loading auto driver fled from the spot.
There was no police at the spot and thus, the auto could not be chased. After having received the samples of the consignment, the seized mawa has been handed over to Ashok Narwariya. After the receipt of report, if found spurious, the department officials would destroyed it.
An installment of 200 basket of mawa was sent to station parcel office but the parcel house did not have right to take action against 150 baskets of adulterated mawa.
The action was taken only against 50 baskets of mawa. The ADM Shivraj Singh Verma said that the information of adulterated being sent through Chambal express was received today morning acting on the information the food and drug department seized 50 baskets of adulterated mawa.