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Health officials injured after vendors attack team testing milk in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar

A mob attacked a team of health officials, which had collected milk samples from local vendors to test for purity, in Muzaffarnagar's Naya Gaon village, the police said on Saturday.

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|Jun 30, 2018, 15:24:05 IST
Muzaffarnagar: A mob attacked a team of health officials, which had collected milk samples from local vendors to test for purity, in Muzaffarnagar's Naya Gaon village, the police said on Saturday.[caption id="attachment_4636511" align="alignleft" width="380"]Representational image. PTI

Representational image. PTI[/caption]The mob attacked the health department team on Friday and destroyed the samples it had collected from two milk vendors Santar Pal and Amar Pal, the police said.According to health officer Vineet Kumar, who led the team to Naya Gaon, both the milk vendors opposed the sampling.The two vendors and their supporters attacked the health officials and destroyed the samples that the team had collected, he said.The officials sustained minor injuries in the attack, the police said.Twenty people have been booked in the case, and Santar Pal and Amar Pal have been arrested, they said.

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First Published:Jun 30, 2018, 15:24:05 IST
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