The growing numbers of plastic or artificial eggs which are being discovered in the state markets has caused utter shock and bewilderment to the people of Bengal.
On Sunday, Aloke Mondal, a resident of Sonarpur in South 24 Parganas found that two out of ten eggs that he had bought from a local market were made of plastic.
He found this out when he was trying fry the eggs. After putting the eggs in the frying pan, he said that he felt a pungent smell of burning plastic emanating out of the eggs.
He informed the matter to the local police station and the district police started a probe in this regard. He also told the police that they had cooked eight eggs on Saturday nightbut they were found to be normal.
But when the remaining two eggs was put in the frying pan, a pungent smell emanated out of the frying pan.
The incident triggered tension Sahebpur village of Sonarpur.
In another incident, a family from Vidyasagarpalli area in Malda have come up with the same complaint saying that they found that some the eggs that they purchased from the market were made of plastic.
Biplab Roy, a resident of Vidyasagarpalli and a local businessman alleged that he found a plastic egg when he was trying to cook.
The incident spread tension in the locality as well. Though the senior district administrative officials have said that no such incident has been reported so far.
The North Dinajpur administration has, however, started a probe after there was an allegation that the artificial eggs were available in the markets. A resident of station colony area of Islampur alleged that some of the eggs that he had bought from the market were also made of plastic.
The shop owner who had sold the eggs to the victim said that he purchased the eggs from the retail market and he can produce necessary paperworks.
It may be mentioned that on Saturday, a family at Garia's Panchasayar alleged that they bought eggs from a popular retail outlet, but they were fake eggs.
"I found that the yolk of those eggs spread around the surface of the bowl, which is a sign of identifying fake egg," the customer alleged.
On March 30, Anita Kumar, a resident of Park Circus area was shocked when she found that the eggs which she had bought from a nearby shop were artificial and made of plastic. She lodged a general dairy with the Karaya police station alleging that plastic eggs were being sold
in the market.