Hyderabad: Man held for selling stale offal of animals

Officials seize 2 quintals of offal of goat and sheep worth Rs 1.5 lakh from a store in Dabeerpura

Hyderabad: The Task Force (South-East) team along with the GHMC officials raided a sheep and goat offal store at Dabeerpura and nabbed one person for illegally preserving and selling stale offal of animals, on Friday.

Officials seized 2 quintals of offal of goat and sheep worth Rs 1.5 lakh.

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The arrested person was identified as Mohd Misbahuddin (24), meat seller from Dabeerpura who runs the store.

Police said Misbahuddin was found illegally purchasing the stale offal of sheep and goat at cheap rate from wholesale market and preserving them at his store unhygienically. He further supplied them to hotels, functions, events and endangering human life.

Based on a tip-off, the police raided the premises and nabbed Misbahuddin, apart from seizing offal including trotters, head, tongue, brain, kidney and liver of goats and sheep, altogether worth Rs 1.5 lakh.