Carcass meat row: West Bengal police forms Special Investigation Team
Kolkata, May 1 (IBNS): West Bengal Police have constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to uproot the carcass and rotten meat rackets from the state, official said on Tuesday.
"A 10-member district level SIT, comprising of the officers of Diamond Harbour Police District and Budge Budge Police Station, have been formed to probe into the carcass meat supply racket," a senior official of Diamond Harbour Police district told IBNS.
"We have already arrested 10 persons, including two kingpins, and recovered a huge amount of rotten and carcass meat from several locations. Our SIT will investigate and unearth the entire racket," the official added.
Earlier on Apr 19, locals caught two persons, including a staffer of local municipality, red handed while they were allegedly taking dead animals' flesh away from a dumpyard at Budge Budge area in Kolkata's neighbouring South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal.
After quizzing the duo, another person was booked from Budge Budge area and later police nabbed five more persons, including a CPI-M leader, from several parts of West Bengal while one of the kingpins of the racket, Sunny Malik, was arrested from Nawada in Bihar.
"We have arrested nine persons so far in connection with the international carcass meat supply racket and our investigation is on to catch others involved in the case," a senior official of Diamond Harbour Police District told IBNS.
"We've already raided several cold-storage in Kolkata and few other locations in the state and recovered huge amount of carcass meat as well as rotten chicken meat," the official said.
A source in the police told IBNS that as many as five linkmen involved in the racket have been identified and police's manhunt is underway to catch them.
"We have accessed the names of food supply chains, restaurants, hotels and departmental stores where these carcass meat were being supplied for last few months or years," the source said.
The police have said that chemicals were used in order to avoid rotting of the flesh and to get rid of the stench before the meat was packed and supplied to markets in West Bengal and neighbouring states.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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