NEW DELHI: An FIR has been registered in Maharashtra against over 10 executives of Reliance Consumer Products and Reliance Retail, besides food delivery platform Zomato's Hyperpure and Blinkit, after the Maharashtra Food & Drugs Administration seized food products worth ?48.09 lakh during a multi-district crackdown. The FDA alleged diversion and sale of expired, damaged and rejected food products. Quick commerce platform Blinkit's chief executive officer Albinder Dhindsa has also been named in the FIR.
Executives of Reliance Consumer Products named in the FIR include V Subramaniam, Ashok Kumar Singh, Vijay Bhikaji Kharmale, and Nilesh Ramdasrao Deshmukh. The FIR has been registered at the Shanti Nagar police station in Thane.
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Emails sent to Reliance Consumer Products and Zomato remained unanswered till press time. The FIR was registered under relevant provisions of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.
Reliance Consumer Products, the fast-moving consumer goods arm of Reliance Industries, makes multiple products such as Campa soft drinks, Joyland flavoured milk, SIL jams and Lotus chocolates.
The Maharashtra FDA has been leading a crackdown on food safety across the state, with dozens of well-known restaurants, clubs and dark stores of quick commerce platforms including Domino's Pizza, Olympia Coffee House and Cafe Mondegar, among others, being sent notices for hygiene violations, or having their licenses suspended.