Customer alleges of buying artificial egg from Kolkata retail store, CPI-M leader's kin interrogated
According to reports, while they were cooking the egg, smell of burning plastic was coming out from it.
The family informed the local administration and has sent the egg to Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) for laboratory tests.
Meanwhile, the nephew of CPI-M leader Rabin Deb, Sumit Deb, was interrogated for hours by city police's enforcement branch on Saturday afternoon.
"After interrogating Shamim Ansari, a trader from Kolkata's Karaya area who has been arrested for allegedly selling artificial plastic eggs and currently in police custody, we came to know about several egg distributors and one of them, Sumit Deb, was quizzed today," an official of enforcement branch told IBNS.
Meanwhile, allegations of such plastic eggs are being reported from separate locations of West Bengal, including Burdwan, Hooghly, East Medinipur and South 24 Parganas, according to reports.
However, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has opened two control-room numbers for residents of the metro city to inform about such suspected artificial eggs: (033) 2286-1212 and (033) 2286-1218.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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