SME Times News Bureau | 29 Apr, 2017
The Delhi High Court on Friday sought a response from Central government
on a plea alleging that vegetables and eggs made of plastic were being
imported from China and sold in Indian markets.
A division bench
of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Anu Malhotra asked the
government to respond on the PIL and posted the matter for July 19.
Social
worker Chand Jain, who filed the PIL through advocate Sugriva Dubey,
claimed that adulterated food items like plastic eggs and vegetables
were being imported from China and sold during the off-season,
especially in the metropolitan cities.
These adulterated food
items affecting the health of people, said the plea while seeking
direction to government to take samples of these plastice eggs and
vegetables and examine their quality to protect the health of public.
The plea also said that the government should conduct raids at places where such commodities were being stored.