Complaints had reached the District Collector’s office that some hotels operating in Puducherry and Karaikal were preserving meat for several days and serving it to customers.
Based on this, female Deputy Collector Pooja, along with officials including Municipal Commissioner Subash, conducted a surprise inspection today at hotels operating in Karaikal.

Accordingly, he inspected the hotel called `Emirates Food land’ (Emirates Food land), which is operating on Bharathiyar Salai. At that time, seeing meat preserved there for days, rotten vegetables, and expired cooking ingredients, he questioned the owners extensively and seized them.
When he continued inspecting the hotel, he noticed blood seeping out from a locked room there. Following that, he told the owners to open the room. However, the owners refused to open it, saying that they did not currently have the key to that room.
In response, the tense Deputy Collector Pooja ordered the officials to break the lock and open the room.

Accordingly, when the locked room was broken open, there were two freezers inside. Blood was seeping out of them. When they were opened and inspected, the meat stored inside was found to be rotten, with maggots wriggling in it.
Shocked by what he saw, the deputy collector pulled out those freezers, opened them, and inspected them. He ordered officials to seize and destroy the meat, which weighed around 50 kilos and gave off a strong foul smell.
He then inspected several more hotels and ordered the seizure of kilos of spoiled, rotten meat found there as well.

When the Deputy Collector was asked about this, he said, “We received many complaints that the food served in the hotels operating in Karaikal was not of good quality. Based on that, I formed an inspection team with the Municipal Commissioner and the official who issues licenses for food-related businesses.
Accordingly, when we inspected the hotel called Emirates today, we found that there were many problems and violations there. In particular, we discovered and seized 50 kg of spoiled meat that had been stored, which was unfit for human consumption.
Likewise, we also found that they were cooking in expired oil. Even the vegetables were in a rotten condition.

They were not following any of the hygiene standards that must be maintained in a hotel,” he said.
These surprise inspections carried out at hotels in Karaikal have left the people of that district shaken.
