Milk adulteration viral video: Hyderabad police launch manhunt for offender

HYDERABAD: After the video of a

dairy farm worker

’s

milk adulteration act

went viral on social media,

Dabeerpura police

in Hyderabad registered a case and launched a man hunt to nab him.

On Tuesday, police registered a case against

Jahangeer Dairy Products owner

and their employee, Raju, under sections 269,272,273 r/w 34 of the IPC, section 3 of Epidemic Diseases Act based on the complaint of Syed Azmat Hussain Jaffery from Darulshifa.

Referring a

viral video

on social media where a worker of the Jahangeer Dairy, located at Gol Khabar in Darulshifa, was seen milking a buffalo at the farm, the complainant alleged that the worker, Raju, drank some milk from a mug and then mixed remaining milk in the mug with rest of the milk in the tumbler. In the video, Raju was also spotted mixing dirty water used for buffaloes in the milk, Dabeerpura inspector N Satyanarayana said.

After registering the case, police summoned Jahangeer Dairy owner, Md Ghouse to police station to record his statement. “The owner identified the worker as Raju from Bihar, who recently joined the farm. After the video went viral, Raju fled from the farm and switched off his phone. We are trying to trace him through his friends in the city,” the inspector said.

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