The Delhi Police registered an FIR against several social media users for circulating “misleading content” and “confidential internal documents” after they uploaded posts that criticised the lack of monitoring by national food regulator, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI).
The FIR was registered against several social media users including @khurpenchh, @YTKDIndia, @gemsofbabus_, @IamTheStory_, and @NalinisKitchen at the IP Estate Police station after they received a complaint on March 24 by Dr Sanjay Kumar, an official with FSSAI.
According to the complainant, some social media users and content creators had been running a “highly coordinated” campaign to malign the reputation of the food regulatory body.
Taking to social media platform X, Youtube Nalini Unagar who said that there was an FIR against her for expressing anger against the rise of “fake” food items and the loss of faith in FSSAI. “Fake milk, paneer, vegetables, and oil are sold openly in the market, the entire FSSAI department should be thrown out because it feels like they don’t even exist in India. This is not a personal attack but the anger of 140 crore Indians who are being fed fake food every day”, her now deleted post read.
