Srinagar, May 22 -- Srinagar- Observing that contaminated milk products can have "serious and irreversible" consequences on human health, particularly children, the High Court of J&K and Ladakh has declined to quash criminal proceedings against representatives of a Gujarat-based milk producers' cooperative over an allegedly unsafe milk sample.

"This Court cannot lose sight of the fact that the public health is of paramount importance and must prevail over private commercial interests. The present case relates to the safety of milk, which is consumed every day by children, infants, pregnant women, elderly persons, patients and general public," said a bench of Justice Wasim Sadiq Nargal while rejecting a petition filed by representatives o...