Mangalore, June 14: In an early morning ride, the officials of Mangalore City Corporation sealed has an illegal abattoir, that has been functioning at Ansar Road in Bunder, here and seized livestock worth over Rs 5 lakh.
The abattoir belonged to Naeem, son of Noor Mohammad, whose slaughter house was sealed by the same officials two weeks ago.
The raid was carried out under the direction of MCC Commissioner Dr Harish and was led by Joint Commissioner Srikanth Rao. Other officials in the early morning raid included Environmental Engineer Manjunath R Shetty, Health Officer Raghunath, Assistant Health officer S N Bhat and Sanitary inspectors- Yashwanth, Bharath Kumar, Santhosh, Sushanth, Nirmala, Karunakar, Basavaraj and Poovappa.
When the officials raided the abattoir around 4:30 am, they found slaughtered and live animals and skins of sheep within the premises. The slaughtering room too was not clean, the officials said.
Over 80 live animals, meet of six slaughtered sheep and skins of three sheep were seized. On the prima-facie it was evident that illegal activities are being carried-out and the MCC officials sealed the slaughter house, the officials said.
It is learnt that the officials later buried the seized meat at Pachanady dumping yard. The seized live sheep will be auctioned.
Officials said that there were several complaints on illegal slaughter houses in the MCC limits. Though the MCC tried to crack down on the illegal slaughter houses in the past, it went in vain as the owners were getting prior information on the raid.
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