Hyderabad: Corporator finds dead lizard in biryani; GHMC to file trial case against restaurant
A lizard was found in chicken biryani served by Bawarchi restaurant located at RTC Cross Roads on Friday.
Hyderabad: A lizard was found in chicken biryani served by Bawarchi restaurant located at RTC Cross Roads on Friday. The customer, none other than the GHMC Corporator from Ramnagar Division Kuntulur Ravi Kumar, immediately brought it to the notice of the GHMC, following which the Food Safety Officers of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) on Friday inspected the restaurant and found the kitchen unhygienic. While filing a trial case against the management, the officers would issue a show-cause notice.
The food safety officers inspected the kitchen of the restaurant. They also collected the sample of biryani containing lizard and also the sample of biryani from the restaurant and sent both to the State Food Laboratory.
During inspection, finding that the food handlers were not wearing gloves, a hair net and masks, the kitchen floor was wet and greasy, the roof was untidy, the storage room was dusty and unhygienic, the official decided to issue a show-cause notice to the restaurant.
They told that a trial case will also be filed against the management in the metropolitan magistrate court for violating the GHMC byelaws for regulation of eating houses or hotels, 1973 of GHMC Act, 1955.
