Racket selling rotten chicken to restaurants busted in Kolkata
Written by : SMTV24x7 | Sat, Apr 28, 2018, 01:04 AM
Kolkata, April 28: Amid an ongoing crackdown on rackets supplying carcass meat to hotels and restaurants here, police on Friday arrested eight persons for allegedly selling rotten chicken to various eateries in the city.
Officers of Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate arrested in the morning two persons for bringing around 70 kgs of rotten chicken to a restaurant near the airport here for sale.
Based on inputs received from the two accused, a raid was conducted on a poultry farm in the Rajarhat area where massive stockpile of rotten chicken was found, the police said.
"During the raid, several kilograms of rotten chicken was found kept in three freezers. A number of dead hens were also found. Initially, we detained six persons from the poultry farm, but later all of them were arrested," a senior officer at the Rajarhat Police Station said.