Resurfacing a June 2025 move: Maharashtra FDA shut Blinkit-linked Pune dark store over licence and storage lapses
Maharashtra FDA shut Energy Darkstore Services’ Baner-Balewadi facility, which serves Blinkit, after finding no valid food licence and improper storage, per a resurfaced report from June 2025. The action had followed Zepto’s Dharavi licence suspension, intensifying compliance pressure on quick-commerce food operations at the time.
Maharashtra FDA shut Blinkit partner Energy Darkstore Services’ Baner-Balewadi dark store in Pune for operating without a valid food licence and improper storage. The action follows Zepto’s Dharavi licence suspension, increasing compliance scrutiny on quick-commerce food operations.
Why this matters
The resurfaced compliance action comes alongside resurfaced signals that Blinkit’s CEO warned of a funding-led quick-commerce correction as capital tightened.
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