An FIR has been registered against a vegetable vendor in Bhopal for washing coriander leaves in drain water. The act was captured in a video.
Smirking at the camera even as he was being recorded, a vegetable vendor in Bhopal kept washing coriander leaves in drain water, despite being asked not to. The man recording the video kept warning the vendor that his act would result in several people falling ill, but the vendor ignored the man and carried on. In the video, the man could be heard telling the vendor that nobody would buy vegetables from him if they saw the video, but even that fell on deaf ears.
However, the video went viral and the Bhopal district administration took note. Soon after, a case was registered against the vendor.
The action came after District Collector Avinash Lavania’s Twitter handle was tagged in the video.
Lavania then directed the police, the municipal corporation and the food department to look into the matter and identify the accused.
On Tuesday, the police said the vendor was identified and his phone number and name had been traced. However, his phone was switched off.
By this time, the food department had an FIR lodged against the accused at the Hanuman Ganj police station.
According to Hanuman Ganj police station SHO Mahendra Singh Thakur, the man in the video was identified as Dharmendra.
The police said Dharmendra sold vegetables at the Nav Bahar vegetable market. “His address has been traced but he was not found at home and he will be nabbed soon,” police said.
The district collector has warned that anyone found indulging in such activities, that could endanger the lives of the citizens of the city, would be dealt with the provisions of the National Security Act. Sub Divisional Magistrates have also been directed to take preventive action.
