PARBAT: Plastic rice is suspected to have been sold at a shop in Kushama Municipality-5 in the district.
The sale of artificial rice was suspected after it was found in the cooked rice in the house of Prem Jaisi Lamichhane, a local.
Lamichhane family members suspected plastic in the rice after a ball of rice they cooked bounced like a cricket ball when banged on the floor and took unusually a long time to cook.
“It took a long time to cook and it bounced like a cricket ball when banged on the floor,” said Lamichhane.
Lamichhane, few days earlier, had procured the rice from Umananda Kirana Stores operated by local trader Lekhnath Sharma.
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