In the first-ever offence booked under the new law banning the possession and sale of beef in Maharashtra, the Malegaon police on Thursday booked three persons for allegedly slaughtering two calves in the power loom town of north Maharashtra and are searching for the alleged offenders.
Acting on information that beef was being sold illegally at a shop at Azad Nagar in Malegaon town of Nashik district, the local police raided the closed shop and seized 150 kgs of beef of slaughtered calves, The shopkeeper concerned had closed his establishment and fled the scene before the police raided the place. The police booked three persons in connection with the beef seizure.
During the raid, the police found that the offenders had kept the beef from the just-slaughtered pieces of calves in a polythene bag. “We have found four slaughtered pieces of calves in a polythene bag. We are not sure as yet as to how many calves have been brought and slaughtered at the place that we raided,” a senior police officer said.