
Shop owner arrested for selling expired edible oils
The Hindu
Shop owner arrested for selling expired edible oils
A shop owner allegedly repacking and selling expired edible oils with tampered labels was arrested on Tuesday.
During the raid, officials seized a total of 1,014 litres of edible oil valued at approximately ₹1.90 lakh.
Following a tip off, the South-East Task Force team of the Commissioner’s Task Force, along with Food Safety officials, raided Sri Ganesh Balaji Lakkadatar Oil in Sri Krupa Market, Mahbub Mansion, Malakpet.
The shop owner, identified as Ashok Kumar Agarwal, 51, a resident of Kachiguda, was found repacking edible oil packets with expired labels and using whiteners to suppress expiry dates and batch numbers without a repacking licence.
The seized items included 39 bottles of Fresh Heart brand oil with expired date stickers (each containing five litres), 27 bottles of the same brand (each containing two litres), 13 tins (each containing 15 litres) with expired date stickers, and 38 tins (each containing 15 litres) without date stickers.
Preliminary investigation revealed that Agarwal was purchasing edible oils in bulk and repacking them with altered labels to mislead customers and make profits.
The seized the material, and the accused was handed over to the Food Safety Officer, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), Malakpet, for further legal action.