Mumbai Doctor Finds Human Finger In Ice Cream Cone He Ordered Online; Probe Launched

A Malad resident was in for a shock when he found a human finger inside an ice cream he had ordered online. Police said the incident occurred on Wednesday afternoon.

According to news agency PTI, the complainant is a 26-year-old doctor with an MBBS degree, who lives in Malad West, and had ordered a butterscotch ice-cream cone of Yummo company.

While consuming the ice cream after lunch, he came across a half-inch-long piece of flesh with a nail in the ice cream, the man has stated in his complaint.

A human finger could be seen sticking out of the cone ice cream in a photo shared online.

The man said he first thought it could be a nut, but luckily did not swallow it.

"I had ordered three cone ice creams from an app. One of them was a butterscotch ice cream of the Yummo brand. After eating half of it, I felt a solid piece in my mouth. I thought it could be a nut or a chocolate piece, but still spat it out to check what it was," he said in a video statement, according to NDTV.

The doctor was traumatised at the discovery he made. "I am a doctor so I know how body parts look like. When I carefully examined it, I noticed the nails and fingerprint impressions under it. It resembled a thumb. I was traumatised," he said.

He lodged a complaint with the ice cream company on its Instagram page. But since there was no appropriate response from the company, the complainant put the piece of flesh in an ice bag and approached the Malad police station, a police official said.

Based on his complaint, the police registered a case against Yummo ice cream company officials.

"The piece of flesh, suspected to be a piece of human finger, has been sent for forensic examination to ascertain whether it is a part of the human body," the official said, adding that a probe in the case is underway.

(With PTI inputs)