Supply Chain
Maharashtra regulator suspends five licences after expired and rejected stock allegedly re-entered the retail chain via disposal yards.
Farhan Qureshi, Supply chain correspondent··4 min read
Maharashtra FDA seized food products worth ₹48 lakh across Thane and Pune between 14 and 15 October and filed an FIR naming officials of Reliance Consumer Products, Reliance Retail, Blinkit and Zomato Hyperpure. Licences of five establishments were suspended after probes found expired, damaged and customer-rejected goods diverted through unlicensed sorting yards.
The FIR at Shanti Nagar police station in Thane names ten individuals including senior Reliance and Blinkit executives plus disposal operators. Seizures included over ₹24 lakh from a Bhiwandi disposal yard, ₹4.92 lakh from a Reliance warehouse and ₹7.81 lakh from a Hyperpure facility. Total value reached ₹48.09 lakh.
Dark-store and warehouse managers now face tighter scrap-disposal audits; any mismatch in destruction certificates can halt outbound carts the same day. Kirana buyers who unknowingly took diverted packs risk sudden stock recalls at the till.
Expired stock meant for destruction allegedly reached retailers via unlicensed yards.
The action squeezes quick-commerce and large-format grocery operators on compliance costs while helping licensed local wholesalers who already run clean books. Unlicensed Bhiwandi yards have been ordered closed.
Watch further licence suspensions and any FSSAI pan-India follow-up before the main Diwali dispatch peak. Court dates on the FIR will set the next compliance tone for q-comm warehouses.
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