Daily Times

The Sindh High Court (SHC), on Thursday, adjourned the hearing of a bail petition filed by a restaurant owner in a case of alleged food poisoning that killed two children.

The children had died after consuming food from the suspect’s upscale restaurant in Karachi.

The defence counsel told the division bench that the parents of the deceased children had forgiven his client and settled the case. He said a copy of the settlement agreement had been submitted in the trial court, which was yet to give its verdict.

The bench remarked that it would hear the petition at hand after the trial court’s order vis-à-vis the settlement, and put off the hearing till March 9.

Last November, two minor siblings, one-and-a-half-year-old Ahmad and five-years-old Muhammad, had died after dining at Arizona Grill restaurant in Zamzama. The restaurant was sealed by the Karachi police who arrested its owner during its investigation. Sindh Food Authority (SFA) submitted a medical report in the court, which confirmed that the children had died from food poisoning. It also connected the high quantity of E.coli bacteria found in the expired meat recovered from the restaurant to the deaths.

Published in Daily Times, March 8^th 2019.