NASHIK: The trader, who was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly using calcium carbide to ripen mangoes, has been remanded in police custody for a day.
The trader, Kamaluddin Bagwan, was nabbed by the Panchavati police on Tuesday after a team of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials raided his shop at the Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) along Peth Road. The trader was found ripening 520 kg of mangoes with calcium carbide in violation of the new Food Safety and Standards Act.
The Panchavati police nabbed the trader after FDA lodged the complaint with Panchavati police late on Tuesday night. He was produced in the district court on Wednesday.
Acting on a tip-off that mangoes are being ripened with the use of chemicals harmful for health, a team of FDA officials from Nashik led by joint commissioner Chandrakant Pawar and the Panchavati police raided Bagwan's shop.
The FDA officials seized twenty-six crates with 520 kg mangoes worth Rs 15,000 from the spot and later destroyed them. Each crate of mangoes had two or three pouches of carbide powders. The samples of mangoes have been sent to the lab for further investigation.
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