{"id":1039295,"date":"2026-09-29T07:32:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T02:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039295"},"modified":"2026-09-29T07:37:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T02:07:29","slug":"fda-officials-extorting-lakhs-from-eateries-quick-commerce-firms-alleges-raut-seeks-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/29\/fda-officials-extorting-lakhs-from-eateries-quick-commerce-firms-alleges-raut-seeks-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA officials extorting lakhs from eateries, quick-commerce firms, alleges Raut; seeks probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Monday accused Maharashtra Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) officials of indulging in extortion and threatening hotels and quick-commerce businesses with licence suspensions, and demanded an independent inquiry against them. <\/p>\n<p>In a letter to FDA Commissioner Tukaram Mundhe, the Rajya Sabha MP alleged that the agency&#8217;s crackdowns have turned its headquarters in Bandra and Thane office into extortion hubs, where officials bypass mandatory legal notices to extract lakhs from frightened business operators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Monday accused Maharashtra Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) officials of indulging in extortion and threatening hotels and quick-commerce businesses with licence suspensions, and demanded an independent inquiry against them. In a letter to FDA Commissioner Tukaram Mundhe, the Rajya Sabha MP alleged that the agency&#8217;s crackdowns have turned its headquarters in Bandra and Thane office into extortion hubs, where officials bypass mandatory legal notices to extract lakhs from frightened business operators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039316,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039295\/revisions\/1039316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}