HARIPUR, Feb 14: A judicial magistrate on Tuesday ordered six managers of different food manufacturing units detained on judicial remand for violating the Food Act.

The magistrate also directed the authorities to seal off an oil mill in the Hattar Industrial Estate.

Hattar police said that on a complaint about manufacturing of substandard cooking oil, biscuits, candies, juices and beverages, Judicial Magistrate Syed Kamal Shah conducted a snap check of food factories in the Hattar Estate and found them violating the Food Act.

The magistrate issued a charge-sheet against the six men under sections 3/6 of the Food Act and 186,269,273 PPC.

They were arrested and produced before the court of civil judge-cum-judicial magistrate, Haripur, Adilzeb Khan, who sent them on judicial remand.

The detained men are: Omar Raffique, Adnan Ahmed and Ibrahim (Capital Food Industries), Muhammad Afzal (Maka Cola Industry), Ghulam Murtaza (GM Valley Food Industry) and Mazar Khan (B&B Oil Mills).

According to police, the magistrate also sealed B&B Oil Mills when he found out that the management was using rusty tins for packing its oil and vegetable ghee.

Two months ago, the magistrate had also issued a charge-sheet against more than a dozen industrialists on the same charge.