Five hundred grams of kaju katli and 500 grams of motichoor laddoos: that was the order Prannoy Palav picked up from Tewari Bros at Charni Road on the evening of 29 July 2026, according to India Today. Within a week, the Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration had suspended the shop’s food business licence.
Palav, a Mumbai resident, said he was about to give a piece of the kaju katli to his three-year-old daughter when something looked wrong. Looking closer, he alleged, he found a corroded metal pin embedded in it. “It was only by chance that I spotted it before she ate it,” he wrote in an Instagram post. “The consequences could have been extremely serious.”
The videos
Palav posted photographs and video of the episode. In one clip he asks staff to open the box, and a pin is visible in one of the pieces; a staff member then lifts it out while Palav asks about the shop’s food safety practices. In another, he walks into the kitchen, which he showed as untidy, and points to a small washroom inside it as evidence of poor hygiene.
The Free Press Journal reported that he also described a clip showing what looked like a floor-cleaning cloth boiling in a kadhai on a gas stove. The paper stressed that none of this had been independently verified. Palav was reported to have lodged a complaint with the FDA, and the shop had issued no public statement when the first reports ran on 3 August.
The regulator steps in
The FDA moved quickly. In an official statement dated 4 August, it said its officers had inspected the Charni Road outlet on 1 August and found violations of the hygiene and sanitary requirements set out in Schedule 4 of the Food Safety and Standards (Licensing and Registration of Food Businesses) Regulations, 2011. The licence was suspended with immediate effect, mid-day reported.
Those findings concern the state of the premises. None of the coverage explains how a metal object came to be inside a sweet, and the shop’s own account was not reported.
The case landed in the middle of what the Free Press Journal described as the state FDA’s ongoing crackdown on food safety violations across Maharashtra. The suspension order, issued under the 2011 licensing regulations, took effect the day the statement went out.
Sources
- Mumbai man finds rusty metal pin in kaju katli, lashes out at sweet shop staff
- Mumbai: Rusted Metal Pin Allegedly Found In Kaju Katli Bought From Charni Road's Tewari Bros Sweet Shop; Video Raises Hygiene Concerns
- Maharashtra FDA suspends Tewari Bros food licence over hygiene violations
