Around 40 students in Tamil Nadu become ill after a dead lizard is found in sambar served at a government school, reports say. The incident occurs when students eat the meal provided for the day.
The meal is linked to the Chief Minister’s Breakfast Scheme, according to one outlet. Following the complaint, school authorities remove two cooks from duty and investigations begin into how the lizard ended up in the food. Another outlet reports the same basic sequence—dead lizard found in the sambar and students falling ill—without adding further details on the scheme or disciplinary actions.
Sources agree on the core facts: the dead lizard is discovered in the sambar served to students and a large number of children develop illness afterward. However, they differ on emphasis, with one focusing on the scheme and the relief of two cooks, while the other centres on the illness and the discovery of the lizard at the school.
