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By Beigh Irshad || Valley Online
SRINAGAR: As valley’s leading milk producing company, Khyber group is in headlines from last few days due to it’s sub-standard, un-safe and mis- branded milk products.
The news about Khyber group was almost buried by the local press here. Almost all the leading newspapers whose lofty slogans claiming to be the bold voices of Kashmir silently buried the news even the advertisements of Khyber were continuously being published in the news papers.
It was only possible by social media where the news got fire and was highlighted by criticism on local News Papers and their owners.
Youths poured out their anger against the newspapers and taunted them on social networking sites with headings like ‘Khyber supplying poison instead of milk’, ‘Kashmir’s killed by Kashmiri’ and much more.
“Through its milk product, Khyber poisons Kashmir and then treats them at their hospital (Khyber Hospital) a social media user posted on Facebook.
Printer and Publisher Greater Kashmir did not know why that story was not carried because he was not in town, Editor-in-Chief Rising Kashmir too was out of town and knew nothing about it, and Editor-In-chief Kashmir Reader said they did not carry the news because only one brand was being targeted and declared as unsafe, while quoting them a local journalist filed a story on Khyber in The Hoot (http://www.thehoot.org/media-watch/regional-media/kashmirs-cronyism-means-a-news-blackout-9277).
“We thought it is someone’s conspiracy to discredit the brand and company (Khyber). Why are samples of other brands not being checked?
There are spice companies who don’t follow set criteria but no action is being taken against them,” Editor-In-Chief Kashmir Reader said.
Despite court directions, adulterated milk is being sold boldly and openly in the market in connivance with those employed to check and seize it, thus playing with the health and lives of people.
According to the J&K government’s an order and direction to stop the marketing of milk and all milk products manufactured by Khyber Agro Farms till further directions products are available in several shops across Kashmir Valley.
Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) also demanded strict enforcement of ban on sale of Khyber milk.
“Virtually every cup of tea grownups have been taking for years and every ounce of milk infants have been brought up on was actually a deadly cocktail of detergents and hazardous substances,” the DAK president said.
The Health and Medical Education Department, in its order No HD/Legal/Drug/MR-56/2016 dated 06-04-2016 ordered that no milk or milk product of the company be available for human consumption till these products are declared safe by a referral laboratory in Kolkata.
Government took three days in removing the Khyber Dairy products even after the strict directions from the Court in J&K and the hoardings of Khyber Company are Still found in every nook and corner of Srinagar city.
Commissioner Srinagar Municipal Corporation Bashir Ahmed Khan said that the Corporation is bound to remove these misleading hoardings. “I am out of station and once I will reach Srinagar, all these hoardings will be removed,” he said.
If years back Khyber Agro Farms Private Limited was found guilty of selling sub- stranded, mis-branded and unsafe milk but it was again sell in market without any fear and care. This time again the sample was found “sub-standard, un-safe and mis- branded” by a Kolkata laboratory.
The Judicial Magistrate in his judgment noted similar instances earlier and said that the milk manufactured by Khyber contains “detergent, urea and other dangerous chemicals not only in milk but other edible products.”
“The accused company is facing similar cases before various courts, therefore, the presumption of innocence in favour of the accused company is ruled out,” the judge said.
The Judicial Magistrate also sentenced the convicted company’s head of operations to six months imprisonment for violating various sections of Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 and Rs 9 lakh as fine.
The court also criticised the Food Analyst for not discharging his duties and ordered his removal.
“Either Hamidullah Dar (Food Analyst Kashmir) is incapable to conduct the test and discharge his duties to the expectations of his assignment and job Or he is dishonest to his job,” the court remarked in the judgment.
Dar was termed as a deadwood and cancer for the nation by court.
On its part, Khyber Agro Farms Managing Director Abdur Rouf Tramboo said he would not comment now. “We will soon clarify our stand.
We will see what the law allows us to comment because the case is in the court,” he said.
“As court has already had taken a serious note of the manner of conduct of the two officers and put on record appreciation for Zeenat Ayoub, Food Safety Officer and the . of the case but their should be an award for them” a respectable citizen has uploaded this status on social media.
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