2,000kg paneer made with acid seized in Jaipur, four held

Jaipur: Adulterated paneer weighing 2,000 kilogram processed by using chemicals and acid was seized by a special team of Jaipur rural police on Wednesday. Four accused transporting the spurious milk product in two pick-up vehicles were arrested and handed over to the Chanwaji police station.

SP (Jaipur Rural) Shankar Dutt Sharma told TOI that the seized paneer did not contain any milk.

It was made of synthetic chemicals and other acids which are dangerous and can cause ulcer, stomach infection etc,” Sharma

The accused have been identified as Shaukat Meo, a resident of Naugaon in Alwar, Sharif Mev, a resident of Nuh in Haryana, Imran Mohammad and Abdul from Alwar.

Sharma said that the paneer was to be supplied for a wedding function in the city. “We had learnt that highly dangerous paneer was taken from Alwar to Jaipur. The milk products were to be sold to two separate traders based in Jaipur’s Dadi Ka Phatak and Shastri Nagar areas,” he said, adding that raids are underway to arrest manufacturers and buyers.

Sharma said, the accused have been arrested under Section 420 (cheating), 270 (malignant act likely to spread infection of disease danger. We can't paste this image from the Clipboard, but you can save it to your computer and insert it from there.ous to life), 272 (adulteration of food or drink intended for sale), 273 (sale of noxious food or drink), and different provisions of food adulteration act, he said.

“The demand for paneer increased by manifold during wedding season. To fill the gap between demand and supply, some traders sell fake and adulterated milk products to their customers,” Sharma added. This is not the first time that the rural police have busted a gang involved in the supply of adulterated milk products. Just a few days before Diwali, the cops had seized 20,000 kg of adulterated milk cake. Around same time, Chandwaji police unearthed a gang selling highly adulterated milk. The Rajasthan police have also sent a team to Alwar to bust the factory involved in processing adulterated paneer.