GHAZIABAD: A food safety officer and his family were threatened by an unknown caller while he was on duty on Wednesday. Subsequently, an FIR was lodged against an unidentified person.
According to police, food safety officer Yaduveer Singh received the threat call at his mobile phone around 11am, when a team headed by him was collecting samples of milk products from a truck in the Kavi Nagar. The truck was intercepted following a tip-off that the truck was carrying spurious food products.
"The caller did not identify himself. He asked me to release the truck immediately. When I refused to do so, he threatened that he would come to my house and kill me and other members of my family. I informed my team about the call and later filed a complaint at the Kavi Nagar police station. We have collected samples from the truck and sent them for testing to Lucknow," Singh told TOI.
Ghaziabad Police have lodged an FIR under Section 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC based upon the complaint filed by Singh.
Later in the day, city magistrate, Kapil Singh, also called up police to take cognizance of the complaint. "We have traced the caller after examining the call detail records of the food safety officer. A hunt has been launched to nab him. The name of the caller cannot be divulged since that would prompt him to flee," said Kavi Nagar SHO Avnish Gautam.
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