About 40 girl students in a school here were taken ill after they had their dinner in the hostel mess and were admitted to a hospital
Out of those treated, 17 girls were discharged and remaining students were stable and out of danger, they added. The school authorities said they had set up an inquiry to probe suspected food poisoning.
Police have collected samples of the food served to the students from the mess which contained beans and buttermilk curry, for analysis, inspector Hemant Bhat, who is probing the incident, said.
