PANAJI
The Congress party on Saturday filed a complaint at the Agacaim police station against food and drugs administration director Jyoti Sardesai seeking her arrest for misleading the people of Goa over the ‘formalin-in-fish’ row.
The lone Opposition party in the state asked the police to register an FIR against the director, who has been under fire after the FDA blew hot and cold over the results of fish samples drawn for testing formaldehyde.
“Jyoti Sardesai should be booked under various sections of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India Act, and also under various sections of the Indian Penal Code. We have filed a complaint with the police… we demand that an FIR should be registered immediately and she should be arrested,” said North Goa Congress district president Vijay Bhike while addressing a press conference in Panaji.
The Congress alleged that Sardesai tampered with the evidence found by the designated officer at the Margao wholesale
fish market and twisted the reports of the fish samples “in favour of certain politicians and fish mafia”.
The party also accused Sardesai of not following the sampling and testing procedures prescribed under the FSSAI Act.
Raising doubts as whether Sardesai was qualified to hold the post of the FDA director, Bhike asked the government to “discharge” her from the services immediately.
“If she continues to hold the position of the FDA director then I feel that there could a danger to the public health, as under her tenure the FDA has restricted itself to pharmaceutical companies overlooking the matter of food safety in Goa,” he claimed.
Former Calangute MLA Agnelo Fernandes demanded that all the people in the state who have been eating fish for the past many years should be screened for cancer.
“The government is well aware of the people who are involved in the fraudulent practice of lacing fish with formalin. And if the government fails to take action and arrest them then we will move the High Court,” he warned.
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