Kollegal, April 9 -- * Supply suspected from Bengaluru and Tamil Nadu

* Tahsildar, Health officials conduct inspection, warn shop-keepers

Kollegal shop-keepers are allegedly selling chocolates and juices filled in medical syringes. This has come as a shocker to parents and public, who have suspected that used syringes may have been used to fill chocolates and jellies.

Anxious people said that, with rising COVID-19 positive cases and vaccination drives going on in full swing, the chocolate-filled medical syringes may be used in hospitals either to administer vaccine or medicine or may be used to draw blood from patients for testing.

A worried parent said, "They are selling chocolates filled in syringes. They are cutting the needle and ...