{"id":901153,"date":"2026-04-17T18:24:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/901153\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T18:24:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:24:21","slug":"west-london-shop-that-hired-drug-dealer-illegal-worker-keeps-its-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/901153\/","title":{"rendered":"West London shop that hired \u2018drug dealer\u2019 illegal worker keeps its licence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the November raid, Mr Kulwant SIngh Bhatia, the husband of Ms Akritta Bhatia, the Licence Holder, called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/shop\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shop<\/a> and was \u201cvery irate and shouting at the officer\u201d according to a report to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/ealing-council\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ealing Council<\/a>\u2019s Licensing Sub-Committee. Mr Bhatia was supposed to be banned from being involved with the business from 2023 after it was found that he was selling illegal tobacco, the documents state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the November raid, Mr Kulwant SIngh Bhatia, the husband of Ms Akritta Bhatia, the Licence Holder, called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,51794,35490,393,4884,257,4566,27204,16,15],"class_list":["post-901153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-ealing","tag-ealing-council","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-london","tag-shop","tag-southall","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116421451331439098","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}