Overview
- Dozens of residents reported vomiting, diarrhoea, abdominal pain and dizziness after eating kuttu flour during Mahashivratri, with patients admitted across multiple hospitals.
- District officials sealed two implicated retail outlets, and inspectors later shut a supplier warehouse in Chipiyana Buzurg after finding irregularities.
- Police registered an FIR under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Food Safety and Standards Act following hospital alerts.
- Four people, including the warehouse owner, were detained as a joint Food Department–police team expanded inspections and seized samples.
- Food-safety teams, with FSSAI involvement reported, collected flour samples for testing, and hospitals said patients are stable or recovering as case counts continue to be consolidated.