Truck seized on suspicion of carrying beef, driver held

A truck driver, allegedly carrying beef and camel meat, was arrested today from northwest Delhi's Keshav Puram area, police said.

The incident came to light in the morning after an actvist associated with an NGO informed the police after stopping the truck suspected to be carrying beef, they said.

It is suspected that the truck had come to Jagdish cold storage located on Lawrence Road in Keshav Puram from Mewat region in Haryana, a senior police official said.

After news about the truck carrying meat spread, locals gathered outside the cold storage and staged a protest following which police was deployed to ensure the situation didn't go out of hand, he said.

A case under IPC section 429 (Mischief by killing or maiming cattle, etc, of any value or any animal of the value of fifty rupees) and 7, 8, 9, 12 and 13 of the Delhi Agriculture Cattle Preservation Act, 1994 has been registered, the official said.

"The vehicle has been seized and the sample of the meat has been sent for the examination. The driver and helper of the truck have also been detained. They used to work at the cold storage," he said, adding the cold storage has been sealed.

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