Jammu, Nov. 15 -- The threat of a network of food adulterators and illegal traders, who are jeopardizing people's health, is growing in Jammu and Kashmir. While attempts are being made to smuggle rotten mutton, chicken, and fish from other states into markets, hotels, and restaurants in the Kashmir Valley, the seizure of a large consignment of synthetic and adulterated cheese in the Jammu division has raised serious questions about the activities of an interstate syndicate involved in the illegal supply of food items.
The latest incident occurred at Budgam railway station in central Kashmir, where the Railway Police seized approximately 1,600 kg of rotten meat from a parcel train arriving from Delhi on November 14. The meat was packed in 4...