4800 kg mangoes seized, 2 held for artificial ripening in Hyderabad

The West Zone Task Force of the Hyderabad police searched two fruit warehouses in Borabanda and seized about 4,800 kg of mangoes artificially ripened with ethylene.

A man named Mohd. Moiz, 40, working as a manager in a fruit warehouse located in HF Nagar, Borabanda was arrested by officials in the first case. During the arrest, the Hyderabad police



confiscated 160 trays of mangoes which were artificially ripened. Each tray contained 20 kg of the fruit and several ethylene packets were also seized.

In the second case, Mohd. Sadiq, a 47-year-old fruit businessman from Sanjay Nagar in Borabanda, Hyderabad, was arrested and 80 trays of mangoes, along with sachets of the ripening agent, were seized by the police.