Administrative raid: Shopkeeper arrested for selling expired items
Agartala/Bishalgarh , May 19, 2023, TRIPURATIMES Desk
Agartala/Bishalgarh May 19: Bishalgarh sub-divisional administration on Friday conducted raid in different shops of Bishalgarh market and seized products that were expired but were being sold.
Food and other grocery items in the shops were extensively checked by the officials and fines were imposed on selling expired items.
Speaking to the reporters in this context, DCM Prasenjit Das said, “The raid is carried out across the Bishalgarh market to ensure that people are sold quality products by the shopkeepers”.
The officials sealed the shop of one Subrata Das, a shopkeeper in Bishalgarh market and also arrested him for selling expired products and displaying food items that are expired for three years.
Besides, the shopkeepers were also warned on using plastic bags.
The DCM also informed that such raids will continue in future and all the fast food shops will also be checked.