14-05-2025
70 traders fined Rs 47 lakh by Ghaziabad court for serving poor quality food in April
Ghaziabad: The court of the additional district magistrate (city) imposed fines totalling Rs 47 lakh on 70 food business operators in April for violations related to food safety and registration.
Penalties ranged from Rs 10,000 to Rs 1.5 lakh, with eight traders fined the maximum amount and over 20 others penalised Rs 1 lakh each, officials the key violators was a food vendor at Windsor Street market in Indirapuram, where a paneer sample collected on July 26, 2024, was found to have low milk fat content. "A prosecution was lodged at the ADM (city) court in this regard, and in April, the court imposed a fine of Rs 1.5 lakh on the food business operator," said Dr Arvind Yadav, assistant commissioner, food 2, Ghaziabad.A cafeteria at a private hospital in Kavi Nagar was also fined Rs 1.5 lakh after unpackaged besan collected in December 2023 was found to have alcoholic acidity levels beyond the permissible a rice mill in Shastri Nagar, singhara flour collected during a routine check in March 2024 failed quality tests. The flour, often consumed during fasts, was deemed substandard. A fine of Rs 1 lakh was imposed by the ADM Raj Nagar, a sweet shop was penalised Rs 1 lakh after samples of khoya barfi collected in Dec were found to contain undeclared edible food colour. "The barfi violated food safety norms," an official New Gadhwal Paneer Bhandar at Gokul Apartments in Janakpuri was fined Rs 1 lakh after a paneer sample collected in March was found substandard due to low fat content. "These fines aim to ensure food safety and enforce compliance with registration norms across the district," he added.
