Kaithal: Seven members of a family including four children started vomiting and their condition deteriorated after eating buckwheat flour during the present fast of ‘Navratri’ festival on Sunday night after their health deteriorated, they were admitted to a private hospital in the city. According to information, the family residing in Model Town area located on Jind Road had eaten buckwheat (Kuttu flour) pakoras and ‘rotis’ prepared by them at home, soon after eating this, their health suddenly deteriorated at around 11:30 pm when all of them started vomiting.
The head of the family, Harish Kumar, a resident of Model Town, said that on Sunday morning, he brought flour from a grocery store in Model Town and made ‘pakoras’ and ‘rotis’ with this flour at around 7 pm. After this, at around 11:30 pm, the family members started vomiting. They immediately rushed to a private hospital along with his 40 year old wife Puja, 40 year old sister Meenu, 12 year old son Saransh and 9 year old Kunal, daughter Lavya, 25 year old niece Deepika and 13 year old Shrishti when their health deteriorated and three members are became unconscious.
They alleged that the shopkeeper gave them poor quality expired, old flour, due to this everyone fell ill. Harish lodged a complaint against the shopkeeper with Anaj Mandi police p-ost which reached at the hospital to record statements of affected persons. The complainant alleged food supply department staff failing to collect samples and check the quality of old, expired food products kept in the stores, causing frequent mishaps due shopkeepers sell such expired food products for self vested interest. According to the police, they started an investigation on this complaint and took action against the owner of the shop accompanied by the staff of the food supply department.
In another case reported in Kaithal,49 year old woman Annu Goel also lodged a complaint regarding food poisoning after she purchased ‘Pakoras’ prepared by ‘Kuttu’ flour from a restaurant on Shorewala Road on Sunday evening. According to the complainant, she started vomiting due to food poisoning after taking ‘Pakoras’ and was rushed to a private hospital immediately by the family.
