Telangana Cracks Down on Highway Eateries, Shuts Hotels Over Filthy Conditions
Food safety raids expose toxic horrors at road dhaba hotspots.
Telangana's Food Safety Taskforce has unleashed a blistering crackdown on highway eateries, raiding 12 notorious outlets along NH-65 (Hyderabad-Vijayawada), NH-163 (Warangal-Hyderabad), and NH-44 (Kurnool-Hyderabad) in Sangareddy, Warangal, and Jogulamba Gadwal districts, uncovering a nightmarish cocktail of violations including rodent-infested kitchens, synthetic color bombs, and mountains of spoiled grub that could have sent unsuspecting drivers straight to the ER.
At The Palace Hotel in Rudraram, inspectors recoiled in horror at clogged drains oozing filth, kitchens crawling with pests and rodents, uncovered food sans labels, veg-non-veg chaos with zero segregation, and blatant synthetic color doping; they slammed an immediate license suspension under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, ordering the joint sealed until higher-ups say otherwise, while dumping over 107.5 kg of hazardous slop—prawns, fish, chicken, paneer, and gobi fry—right there on-site to prevent it from poisoning the next pit stop crowd.
The purge didn't stop there: Utsav Restaurant on NH-65 in Chityala Mandal got hammered for expired stock and greasy oil recycling, with officials torching suspect meat, seafood, butter, red gravy, manchurian, chicken lollipops, and suspiciously "coloured" dishes; nearby Athidhi Restaurant in Choutuppal saw kilos of rancid chicken, meat, expired dry fruits, spoiled sauces, and a whopping 1.5 kg of synthetic colors flushed, while Sangam Hotel nearby yielded 2 kg more of those illicit hues and 8 kg of ancient, label-less cooked leftovers lurking in the fridge.
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On the Warangal-Hyderabad stretch of NH-163, The Fort Food Court was a dumping ground for tainted coloured prawns, corn, and chicken, plus seized hauls of 15 kg mislabeled red gram dal, 9 kg turmeric, 18 noodle packets, and 12 kg tamarind; Minerva Coffee Shop and Blue Fox Restaurant coughed up 1 kg synthetic colors and 5 kg defective-labeled junk, discarded on the spot, and Hotel Vivera surrendered 12 liters of flat expired cool drinks alongside 2 kg of mystery gravy past its prime, all yeeted to safeguard highway munchers from sneaky stomach rebellions.
This highway horror show caps a relentless festive-season blitz where officials swept 95 sweets shops across 33 districts, nabbing adulterated treats and firing off consumer alerts amid rising gripes of tummy terrors; with samples rushed to labs, improvement ultimatums slapped, and social media blasts on the department's X handle exposing the rot, Telangana's road warriors are vowing zero mercy—next time you pull over for that biryani fix, think twice before biting into potential poison.
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