A case was registered against the school superintendent, headmistress of the primary school, headmaster of the secondary school and a person who brought the food from outside.
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Thane: Police registered an FIR against four persons on Thursday, a day after more than 100 students of a private ashram school in Maharashtra’s Thane district suffered from food poisoning after consuming the mid-day meal, an official said.
A total of 117 students, including 48 girls, were admitted to the Shahapur sub-district hospital after they suffered from food poisoning on Wednesday, Shahapur tehsildar Komal Thakur told
The Sant Gadge Maharaj Primary and Secondary Ashram School (residential school for tribal children), where the incident took place, is located at Bhatsai in Shahapur taluka on the outskirts of Mumbai.
The school houses 290 students from Classes 1 to 10 and 168 of them, who were present on Wednesday, were served the food brought from outside, Thakur said.
Students were served food (pulao) and a sweet dish (gulab jamun) following which they experienced vomiting and other symptoms of food poisoning, the official said.
They were immediately rushed to the hospital, she said.
The food was brought from outside on the occasion of the first death anniversary of a villager from Bhatsai, she added.