Bengaluru: The BBMP has reportedly served notice to the owner of the Jhatka Cut Hindavi Mart Meats at Ullal in the city for operating the business without a licence and the officials have also given the meat outlet’s owner a week’s deadline to get his licence in order. 

BBMP Assistant Director of Animal Husbandry served the notice to the shop owner, it is learned. 

In the background of the recent controversies created by the Sangh Parivar activists concerning the Halal meat trade, and their active campaigns against the Halal meat business, several places within the BBMP’s jurisdiction such as Indira Nagar, Bannerghatta, Jnana Bharathi, Ullal, and other sites had places had seen the opening of a new outlet named Jhatka Cut Hindavi Mart Meats.

Authorities had reportedly listed the establishment’s other discrepancies and misdoings to serve notice apart from the fact that the outlet was operating without a business licence, including the information that the outlet was not entirely cleaning the equipment used for meat cutting, and animal slaughter was also being done at the meat selling location.

 

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Islamabad (PTI): At least seven people, including five schoolchildren and a policeman, were killed on Friday in a remote-controlled blast in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, according to media reports.

The blast occurred at 8.35 am near a school at the Civil Hospital Chowk of the Mastung district of the province, Dawn newspaper reported.

“It appears that an IED (improvised explosive device) attached to a motorcycle was detonated near a police mobile,” Kalat Division Commissioner Naeem Bazai was quoted as saying in the report.

“So far, seven individuals have been killed, including five school students,” Bazai said. At least 22 people were injured in the attack.

Most of those injured were schoolchildren, Geo News reported, adding that they were shifted to a nearby hospital.

A police van and several auto-rickshaws were damaged in the explosion, according to the report.

An emergency was declared across all Quetta hospitals after the blast, the report said quoting the provincial health department spokesperson, adding that all doctors, pharmacists, staff nurses and other medical staff were summoned.