Overview
- Guests at a Babadiya-Noabad wedding, which served dinner Wednesday night, later reported vomiting, diarrhoea and stomach pain.
- Officials counted between roughly 80 and 200 people treated or admitted, and doctors said none were critical.
- The Ichhawar health centre and the Sehore district hospital declared an emergency, brought in extra staff and set aside two wards for patients.
- Samples from the meal went to the Food and Drug Administration lab in Bhopal, and locals offered conflicting guesses about a tainted raita or mawa-based gulab jamun.
- Revenue Minister Karan Singh Verma said hot weather may have spoiled food at the large gathering of about 1,200 guests, underscoring food-safety risks at mass events.