Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Dec 18: High Court has sought response from the Amicus to the status report filed by the Food Safety Department regarding curbing the food adulteration which shows glaring example of adulterated food being supplied in open market.
The Amicus to the PIL Senior Advocate Bashir Ahmad Bashir submitted before the Court, that the report does not reveal that anybody involved in food adulteration has been penalized except showing that adulterators of food have been fined.
Amicus Bashir submitted before the Division Bench of Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Sanjeev Kumar that urgent attention was required towards the instant PIL and it has to be taken on fast track basis, so that general public is prevented from consuming adulterated food. He also
informed the Court that appointment of IAS officer needs to be appointed as Food Safety Commissioner as the present FSC is not effective.
Court with these submissions asked the amicus to respond to the status report of the Government and indicate what are the deficiencies and what steps need to be taken to curb the menace of adulterated food supplied in open market.
It is Food Safety Commissioner J&K, who in his latest report submitted before Court, stated that 2371 food samples have been tested during the current financial year in 21 districts of the State wherein 637 samples were found to be of substandard quality and 1734 food samples were found of standard quality.
It has been submitted before the Court that pure food is basic fundamental right to all citizens and Government is totally non-serious for ensuring that pure food be available to the people.
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