MANGALORE: The Mangalore City Corporation (MCC) officials led by joint commissioner Srikanth Rao on Sunday raided illegal abattoirs in the city following complaints.
MCC had earlier conducted several raids on such outlets. However, those raids went futile because slaughtersphouses got prior information about the raid.
on Sunday, MCC officials maintained secrecy and not reveal the raid location even to Mangalore city police. They raided suspected illegal slaughterhouses located close to MCC's official slaughterhouse in Kudroli. The MCC team during the raid found skins and live animals within the illegally operating premises. The slaughtering room was freshly washed and blood stains and meat was found at some spots.
When MCC officials inspected the premises' drainage outlet pipe entering the nearby storm water drain, evidence of animal dung and blood was noticed.
Within a few minutes of MCC officials going into the campus, locals assembled there in large numbers and were shortly joined by Noor Mohammed, the owner of the slaughterhouses. Mohammed argued that no slaughtering activities were carried out in the premises and it was used only for storage of animal skins and to stock sheep and goats.
When asked to produce trade licence, he failed to produce any. Mohammed said that he had been doing the business for the past 40 years without any license and why one should obtain licence for stocking skins and animal herd on his premises.
MCC also conducted raids on meat shops in Central Market to checked MCC seals on the meat. No fraudulent practice was reported, Srikanth Rao said. Despite several warnings, stray instances of encroachment of space by footpath vendors and shop owners were found in Central Market, he added. Spotting the approaching MCC vehicles, the vendors voluntarily rolled back their items and cleared the illegal encroachment of space.
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