
Around 500 fall sick after eating ‘spoiled’ buckwheat
The Hindu
Case registered, one arrested: police
Over 500 people, who had eaten food prepared with buckwheat (kuttu) flour, fell ill in different parts of east Delhi, officials said on Wednesday. Prima facie it appears to be a case of food adulteration or sale of spoiled flour, they added. A case has been registered against the owner of a general store in Kalyanpuri in connection with the incident, Deputy Commissioner of Police (East) Deepak Yadav said. Bunty, 31, a resident of Trilokpuri and proprietor of a store has been arrested. Around 526 people were reportedly admitted to hospitals. They complained of uneasiness, stomach ache and vomiting after they ate the food made with kuttu flour to break their Navratri fast on Tuesday, a senior East Delhi district official said. “All of them except four-five people have been discharged,” he said.
In , the grape capital of India and host of the Simhastha Kumbh Mela every 12 years, environmental concerns over a plan to cut 1,800 trees for the proposed Sadhugram project in the historic Tapovan area have sharpened political fault lines ahead of local body elections. The issue has pitted both Sena factions against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which leads the ruling Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra. While Eknath Shinde, Deputy Chief Minister and Shiv Sena chief, and Uddhav Thackeray, chief of the Shiv Sena (UBT), remain political rivals, their parties have found rare common ground in Tapovan, where authorities propose clearing trees across 34 acres to build Sadhugram and a MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions) hub, as part of a ₹300-crore infrastructure push linked to the pilgrimage.












