Carcass meat samples found 'unfit for examination'
Kolkata, June 27: The samples collected during the 'carcass meat racket' that came to light around two months back were found 'unfit for examination', a lawyer said here on Wednesday.
"Samples taken from an intercepted vehicle were sent to the forensic department. In the laboratory reports, the experts revealed that the samples had decomposed to such an extent that they were unfit for examination and we are sending them back," said the lawyer.
He said that the reports of the samples collected from the cold storage were awaited.
The issue first came to light in late April after the police arrested two persons for allegedly collecting carcass meat from a dump yard in South 24 Parganas district's Budge Budge.
Interrogation revealed that the two accused were part of a rotten meat selling racket and involved in supplying carcass meat from the dump yard to different city restaurants at a cheap rate.
The West Bengal Police also busted a racket selling carcass meat and seized nearly 20 tonne of meat from a cold storage in Kolkata and arrested six men in April.
Recently, some civic bodies raided different restaurants and collected samples.
According to Sabyasachi Dutta, Mayor of Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation, food samples collected from some big restaurants in Bidhannagar area were found to be unhealthy.
The owners have been warned that if they fail to improve their standards, their license would be cancelled.
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Bangladesh's ousted PM Sheikh Hasina condemns arrest of Hindu spiritual leader, demands his release
Dhaka, Nov 28: Deposed prime minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina on Thursday condemned the arrest of Hindu spiritual leader Chinmoy Krishna Das and said the leader must be released immediately.
Das who was taken into custody earlier this week on sedition charges.
"A top leader of the Sanatan religious community has been unjustly arrested, he must be released immediately," Hasina said in a statement.
"A temple has been burnt in Chittagong. Previously, mosques, shrines, churches, monasteries and homes of the Ahmadiyya community were attacked, vandalised and looted and set on fire. Religious freedom and security of life and property of people of all communities should be ensured," the former prime minister said in the statement posted on Awami League's X account.
Hasina fled to India on August 5 following widespread protests against her Awami League-led government over a controversial job quota system. Three days later, Yunus, a Nobel laureate, took over as the Chief Adviser of the interim government.
Hindu minority groups have been frequently reporting atrocities against their community members in different parts of Bangladesh, even after Yunus took charge.
There are also reports of the rise of extremist groups like Jamaat-e-Islami and similar ideological extremist wings.
