A Blackburn restaurant boss says he is mystified over a man who keeps dropping bags of rice outside his premises.

The owner of Jaan’s Restaurant, based in Charlotte Street, said the discarded food was attracting rodents to the area.

In the CCTV a man can be seen approaching the car park in the early hours of the morning and is spotted dumping the food from a carrier bag.

The food waste appears to be leftover biryani and bits of vegetables.

The public car park is used by shoppers and is based directly next to Jaan’s Restaurant in the heart of the Whalley Range shopping district.

Saad Waseem said he was puzzled at the almost daily littering next to his restaurant.

“Every day someone is coming here and throwing rubbish," he said.

“He seems to come here and throw it and walks off. It is wrong to do it anyway, but he does not do it in front of his own house but here.”

Mr Waseem says his staff are having to pick up the food and discard it themselves.

“He is throwing it for the pigeons and the rodents. Why not throw it in front of your own house? We are getting tired of having to clear this up.

“This is the state of the place we are in. We are reporting it to the council.”

In 2020, Blackburn with Darwen Council launched a campaign to ask people to stop feeding pigeons.

Anyone caught feeding the pigeons could be prosecuted, as the food waste attracts other vermin which carry and spread diseases which can be transmitted to humans. 

The council had said a particular problem was noted around the bus station with the birds creating a mess inside and outside the station.

People spotted purposely feeding pigeons could end up with a £75 fine.