Quality control: Two arrested for selling donkey meat

MULTAN:

Multan police on Monday claimed to have arrested two butchers carrying donkey meat.

A police spokesman said the meat was to be sold for Eid Milad celebrations.

He said the butchers, identified as Basaar and Ramazan, had been selling the meat for over five years.

He said an FIR was registered against them after veterinary doctors inspected the meat and confirmed that was donkey meat.

He said the men confessed that they were planning to sell for Rs800 to 1,000 per kg.

The spokesman said the meat had been mixed with mutton so that it could not be identified.

He said four boxes containing the meat were recovered from the butchers who told police that they had collected the meat from three dead donkeys in Qadirpur Rawan.

He said the men also collected hides of dead dogs and donkeys to sell them later.

Qadirpur Rawan Station House Officer Imran Arif told The Express Tribune that a detailed report from the veterinary doctor would be submitted in three days.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 6^th, 2015.