Delhi: Shop fined Rs 10,000 for buying buffalo meat illegally

THE OWNER of a meat shop in east Delhi’s Gandhi Nagar was fined Rs 10,000 for selling buffalo meat procured from an illegal abattoir, Delhi Police said. Police reached the shop on Monday morning after receiving a PCR call that beef was being sold there. But forensic tests later revealed that the shop was selling buffalo meat, said police. "We called veterinary doctors and got the meat inspected. The doctors confirmed that it was buffalo meat. The shopkeeper had a licence to sell buffalo meat. However, since the meat was procured from an illegal abattoir, the owner was fined Rs 10,000," said DCP Nupur Parsad (Shahdara).