Look at these images claiming to be garlic pieces and being sold at markets in Maharashtra's Akola. Aren't you convinced by their look to resemble garlic? You might not even get a question whether they are unreal garlic being sold too fool customers and carrying a potential to harm their health. While these garlic picks may look quite real, let us tell you they aren't. What is more shocking is that these garlic are coated with cement! The viral video exposes a street vendor from Akola selling the fake and cement version of the vegetable closely mixed along with real ones.
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The incident of a local vegetable vendor selling fake garlic made up of cement was exposed after a retired police officer's wife picked a few unreal garlic pieces and bought them home.
It was wife of Subhash Patil residing in Bajoria Nagar of Akola who learned about the scam and exposed it. She had purchased 250 grams of garlic from the respective street vendor and a large amount of garlic pieces turned out to be fake. When she tried peeling them off to use it for cooking, she was left shocked as the cloves wouldn't separate due to being artificially created with cement.
A video showed and exposed how some of the garlic were fake and fully created out of cement, however, looked confusingly real. The footage showed a person taking two garlic in hand and trying to feel them off. What happened next? One of the garlic could be opened as it was a natural one, however, the second one demonstrated on the video exposed the cement-made vegetable.
There's no clear report suggesting whether an action was taken against the vendor who sold fake garlic to locals.
