8.000 Kg Of Beef Seized In Maharashtra’s Thane , Two Arrested

Police have graped 8,000 kg of beef and detained two persons for allegedly smuggling the banned animal meat in Thane city of Maharashtra, police said on Monday.

The police, after an alert, intercepted a tempo at Kharegaon toll naka on the Nashik-Mumbai highway on Saturday, an official from Kalwa police station said.

The police found beef in the vehicle and during enquiry it was revealed that the meat was being transported from Malegaon in neighbouring Nashik district to Kurla in adjoining Mumbai.

The official further said that the meat was worth about Rs 8 lakh and two persons, identified as Rais Ahmed Salam Qureshi and Abdul Ahmed Naseem Khan, were arrested under defined provisions.

A delegation of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the Bhartiya Govansh Rakshan Sanwardhan Parishad met Thane Police Commissioner Jai Jeet Singh on Sunday and made him notice the increasing cases of beef smuggling into the state.