The ‘Kishore Bhaina Mutton’ hotel, famous in the city for serving tasty mutton curry, was on Friday razed to ground by the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on some grounds, including encroachment.
The roadside eatery located near the Doordarshan Centre was demolished with a bulldozer.
The civic body had earlier cancelled the food registration of the hotel and sealed it after detecting irregularities during a raid.
As per reports, a surveillance team of the BMC inspected the hotel and found that all standard guidelines for food safety were being breached. The hotel was serving stale crabs besides using expired additives like sauces and harmful food colours. The food was also being prepared in extremely unhygienic conditions.
It was found that the owner was running a full-fledged hotel business and earning lakhs while he had a licence only for vending street foods like ‘gupchup’ and ‘dahi bara’ and was paying tax of only Rs 100 towards it.