City Police raids on 13 oil companies

Warangal, July 23: The Warangal city police have conducted simultaneous raids on 13 oil companies in the city here on Saturday and collected samples from companies which were selling adulterated product.

The City Police Commissioner G. Sudheer Babu along with food safety officials made a surprise visit to the Garg Agrotech oil company in Rampur of Madikonda Mandal late on Friday night.

The police found that the packaging of oil was being carried out in unhygienic conditions. Samples of local oil companies like Ruchi, Mamatha were collected.

Mr. Sudheer Babu said that as per the instructions of Director General of Police Anurag Sharma, they were acting against adulteration of all kinds of food items.

"We have taken samples from Garg Agrotech oil company and sent them for forensic test to Nacharam Food Safety Laboratory in Hyderabad. We will take action as soon as we get the report," he said.

Central Zone DCP Venugopal Rao, ACPs Janardhan, Muralidhar, inspectors Sridhar, Srilakshmi, Ramesh Kumar, Kishan, and food safety officer Rajendra Prasad took part in the raids.