Srinagar, April 5 -- Consumption of fresh fruits including dates, shoots up during Ramazan. Fruit vendors and shopkeepers bump up their sales during the holy month. Even unfair surcharging and excessive profiteering becomes a norm of the day here. Yet people spend hefty amounts on culinary delights to make their Iftaars and Sehris scrumptious and savoury. But, this Ramadhan, watermelons came in the line of fire. People abandoned the fruit as if it was the same forbidden fruit which Adam (AS) had eaten in paradise. Sales of the fruit dwindled drastically. Social networking sites went abuzz with posts and videos, debating the alleged harmful chemical contamination of the fruit. Medicos kept issuing decrees, and cautioning commoners not to i...