The discovery was made by a wholesale and retail ice vendor who sells various types of cold drinks like fruit or dry fruit juices, milk-shakes, sugarcane juice, lassi to factories, hotels, restaurants and even Supplies bulk ice blocks to street vendors. -Chaas-Thandai, Sharbat-Sharbat, Pani-If-Gola, or sweets like Faluda etc., which are tasted by thousands of people every day.

When shocked seller saw dead rat crawling out of his frozen rat hole
-The block is reportedly from the Junnar unit
, which has gone viral and sparked protests among citizens on social media.

Many have pointed fingers at the Pune district authorities, the State Food Drug Administration and other concerned agencies for serious lapses at the peak of summer, when there is huge demand for ice and ice-based food items-sweets.

Fed up with the alien in the snow, the furious locals have demanded that the relevant agencies should immediately conduct a raid and check whether health-hygiene parameters are being followed and take action on the matter.

The development comes just days after people found samosas filled with condom packs, tobacco, pebbles and sand being served at the staff canteen of an automobile major in the twin city of Pimpri-Chinchwara.

Chikhali police station senior police inspector Dnyaneshwar Katkar said Pune police have booked a total of five people linked to an outside private food caterer, while one has been arrested and is currently in judicial custody till April 22. As further investigation is ongoing.