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Pune: A police official said that five persons were booked after condoms, gutkha and stones were allegedly found in samosas supplied to a major automobile firm in Pimpri Chinchwad in Pune. The accused, identified as Rahim Shaikh, Azhar Shaikh, Mazhar Shaikh, Firoz Shaikh, and Vicky Shaikh, allegedly inserted condoms, gutka, and stones into the snacks.
The official said that those booked comprise two workers of a subcontracting firm that was asked to supply the samosas while the other three were partners from a firm whose contract was terminated earlier for adulteration issues in snacks. He said,”The three partners had allegedly planted these two workers to ensure the firm that had got the samosa contract now would get defamed.”
Official said, “The police revealed that the partners planted the workers to sabotage the reputation of the newly contracted firm. The incident occurred when Catalyst Service Solutions Pvt. Ltd. The firm had given a contract to provide samosas to another subcontracting firm named Manohar Enterprises. On Saturday, some of the automobile firm employees found condoms, gutka and stones in the samosas.”
The Chikhli police station official said that after Manohar Enterprises’ staffers were questioned over the incident, it was found that two workers, identified as Firoz Shaikh and Vicky Shaikh, had allegedly stuffed condoms, gutka and stones in the samosas.
He said, “We have registered a case under IPC sections 328 (causing hurt by means of poison) and 120B (criminal conspiracy). Both the accused told us that they are employees of SRA Enterprises and were sent by its partners to adulterate the food supplied by Manohar Enterprises.”
SRA Enterprises was earlier dropped from the contract after a bandage was found in the snacks supplied by them. He added “One person has been arrested. Further investigation is underway.”
