An AMC team checks stock at the silver foil shop in Ahmedabad’s Kalupur area, on Monday, Nov 2, 2026
Each packet containing 10 leaves was being sold for Rs 250. The total value of the stock seized is Rs 42,500. The shop was also selling original gold foil — a packet of ten leaves for Rs 1,000.
A rapid test on the biscuits revealed that the foil was not made from real silver. Investigations revealed that it had been bought from the Kalupur shop, officials said, adding that the team then decided to send in a man posing as a customer.
The foil purchased failed the purity test,” an official said, adding, “A total of 170 packets of fake silver foil were found on the premises. A while later, the shop, H M Warakhwala, was sealed. The silver foil was found to be fake. What led health inspectors to the shop was a stock of foil-coated biscuits being sold from a handcart in the Memco area. “An inspector went in posing as a customer wanting to buy silver foil. It will be further analysed at the public food laboratory. stocks will yet be tested at the laboratory.” Although the rapid test showed it to be pure.
Ahmedabad: On Monday, a ‘customer’ walked into a shop in Kalupur that sells gold and silver foil used to decorate sweets.