Altaf Hamid Rao.
MIRPUR (AJK), (Parliament Times) : Local authorities headed by the City Municipal Corporation magistrate Zahid Majeed Sheikh and District Food and Drug Inspector Dr. Zaheer Ahmed stormed through surprise raids on various hotels a d restaurants against supply of substandard edibles besides unhygenic and contaminated water to the consumers and fined the perpetrators on the spot.
Muncipal magistrate Zahid Majeed Sheikh told our Special AJK Correspondent Altaf Hamid Rao here on Saturday that with muncipal and health department staffers conducted surprise checking of various restraunts and cafes in the city.
The raiding teams checked source and stocks of food items besides drinking water in restraunt and discarded unhygenic drinking water in the restaurants including those located at main public places including Watan Hotel and Yaqoob Cafee opposite DHQ hospital as well as at central and chowk shahdaan.
“Violaters were punished with heavy fines on the spot”, the Municipal Magistrate said.
Earlier on special directions of Distt Magistrate/ Mirpur Deputy Commissioner Ch. Amjad Iqbal, the Municipal, Health Department Surprise team conductex surprise inspetion of milk supplied from adjoining Punjab at jatlan head.
The team discarded hundreds of litters of adulterated milk and fined the perpetrators for thousends of rupees on the spot, magistrate Zahid Majeed Sheikh said adding that drive will continue till the last adulterer was netted and punished under the law.