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The J&K high court on Tuesday asked amicus curie to point out deficiencies in the status report filed government with regard to the implementation of the food safety act and prevent adulteration of food in Jammu and Kashmir. As the hearing of the PIL started, Amicus curie submitted before the Division Bench of Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Sanjeev Kumar that urgent attention needed to be attracted toward the PIL and it has to be taken on fast track basis, so that general public was prevented from consuming adulterated food. He said that an IAS officer needed to be appointed as Food Safety Commissioner to make the department more vibrant and effective. With these submissions, the court asked the amicus to respond to the status report of the Government and indicate what are the deficiencies and steps needed to be taken to curb the menace of food adulteration in the state. |
