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Keesara ‘fake paneer’ claim needs proof

Report says 300 kg seized near Hyderabad and two arrested. Until a lab says what it is and a police note says who did what, this is an allegation, not a racket.

By Ctrl Alt DebateHealthcareMedchal–Malkajgiri
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A sealed food-sample container and a paper marked for laboratory testing sit on a desk beside an unopened police file, while two covered autorickshaws wait outside a Keesara police station in the background.

Samples from the reported Keesara seizure are awaiting official documentation and laboratory testing.

Illustration generated from an editorial brief

Hyderabad’s Keesara figured in a report that said the Malkajgiri Special Operations Team and food-safety officials seized nearly 300 kg of suspected fake paneer from two autorickshaws and arrested two men, with samples sent to a lab for testing. That is what the report says; an official seizure memo, FIR, or lab result was not available in the public record consulted.

Keesara Police Station is under the Malkajgiri Commissionerate and the station’s contacts are public, but no police press note matching this specific seizure turned up in the searches we ran. The report does not name the accused, the sections invoked, the buyers allegedly targeted (it says “hotels and restaurants”), or the lab receiving the samples. Without those, “racket busted” reads more like a headline than a finding.

For Telangana readers, the health question is the point: if paneer being moved into the city is adulterated, say how it was identified, where it was headed, and when test results will be out. If it was just undocumented stock, say that too. Until an official document or lab report lands, this is a claimed seizure at Keesara, not a proven fake-dairy network.

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