On 8 February, 350 kg of stale halal beef was seized from a meat shop near North Paravoor in Ernakulam. The rotten flesh was confiscated from a shop called Halal Chicken Center, owned by Neendoor Kanjiraparambil Naufal, and he is absconding. The shop sold chicken and beef.
A woman who bought meat from this shop found maggots in the flesh when she was about to prepare it. The lady informed Chittattukara panchayat authorities, who then intimated Food Safety officers. Elected representatives and government officials then raided the butcher.
Dr. Scindia Jose, Paravoor Circle Officer, Food Safety Department, led the inspection. The meat was stored in an unhealthy manner inside freezers that looked unsanitary. Health department officials said that the beef was several days old. They also found guts and intestines too stored in the same freezers.
A shop employee admitted that the flesh was at least three days old. It is alleged that they sold the slaughterhouse waste and aged beef mixed together with fresh flesh. Samples were collected and sent for testing. Authorities closed the shop, which was operating without a license, and buried the confiscated maggot-infested beef.
It has hardly been a month since over 100 people fell ill after consuming contaminated food from Majlis Hotel, located not far from the same halal meat shop. Those poisoned had ordered Arabic halal food. It happened on 16 January, and the victims had discomfort within hours of eating.
Those affected, including children, sought treatment due to vomiting, diarrhea, fever, and abdominal pain. Health officials later confirmed that Salmonella Enteritidis bacteria was the reason for the food poisoning. It enters the body when one consumes stale meat and eggs.
Police arrested the hotel chef Hassainaar (50) (from Kasargod) and suspended the license of Majlis Hotel. Soon after the raids, the hotel licensee, Ziyad Ul Haq, went missing. North Paravoor Municipality’s health wing officials complained to the police. Prasanth T Nair, sub-inspector of North Paravoor police station, said that his team is searching for the hotel owner, Haq.
On 26 January, Mathrubhumi reported that the licensee’s name was not recorded in the police FIR and police were yet to catch him. This happened even though the owner was charged with attempting to murder sections. On 28 January, Hassainaar tried for bail, but the judge observed that the offenses were grave and denied his plea.
Following the incident, V A Prabhavathi, North Paravoor municipality chairperson, claimed they had intensified raids at hotels in the municipality area. She added that the Taluk Hospital canteen was shut down following the sale of contaminated food. No action was initiated against the region’s hundreds of unlicensed halal meat sellers.
Whenever food poisoning or the confiscation of stale meat happens, Kerala Health Minister Veena George states that the license has been revoked or that the shop did not have a proper license. She would also inform that an investigation has been ordered. This has been happening for months, and these cases seem to multiply. Allegations of a deep nexus between the halal mafia, top politicians, and the bureaucracy have existed for several decades.
On 12 January, HinduPost reported that around 500 kg of rotten ‘Tsunami chicken’ kept for distribution to halal hotels was seized from Ernakulam. The rotten meat was confiscated from a rented house at Kaipadamugal near the defunct Kalamassery HMT Machine Tools Ltd.
Tsunami chickens are those birds that die of diseases but are sold from bird farms. Allegedly, the halal mafia procures them at a meager price. Authorities do not check whether it is dead or slaughtered, which helps the halal mafia.
Following massive public outrage and people boycotting eateries in the state, Kerala police finally detained the accused. By 25 January, O Junais (37) and the second accused, Nizab Marakkar (33) from Palakkad, were arrested from Malappuram.
Kochi City Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) S Sasidharan said that Junais was a Mannarkkad native with five cases registered against him at the Mannarkkad police station. Two were for attempted murder.
During the inspection of the rented house in Kalamassery, the Municipal authorities found invoices of stale meat sold to 49 hotels. Police later seized the bills of another 55 eateries. Junais admitted he bought, stored, and sold the flesh, knowing it was contaminated. He added that it was procured from Tamil Nadu and sold cheaply to hotel owners in Ernakulam.
The accused were charged under non-bailable sections, punishable by imprisonment for up to ten years. These laws deal with administering deadly poison, knowing there is a danger to life. They were produced in court and remanded. To appease the public, authorities claimed that Junais was the main link in the Tsunami meat racket.
Initially, the Kalamassery Municipal Corporation did not release the names of the hotels that bought Tsunami chicken from Junais. After stiff opposition from the public, the authorities were forced to share the names of 49 hotels on the list. It contained famous hotels and malls in Ernakulam, all selling halal food.
Interestingly, the Kalamassery municipality allegedly did not properly inspect all these 100-odd known offenders but is now playing the victim card with the help of the same halal mafia. It became clear that public awareness was not a priority since they indulged in diversionary tactics.
The Hotel and Restaurant Association accused the council of releasing the names of 49 hotels that bought rotten meat as ‘unnecessary.’ They claimed that it would affect hotel tourism! The association declared that they took legal action against the Municipal Corporation. This move prevented the release of the names of 55 eateries featured in the second list.
Recent developments indicate that more shady players have entered the stale meat industry. The government claims to be conducting raids to clean up the non-veg industry, but many allege it is a farce. Seizures happen only when the public tips off authorities. Unless every butcher/hotel that buys and sells meat/food comes under the purview of the law, the rotten food menace will continue.
Appeasement politics means that the green communists are not ready to let that happen. A particular community owns a majority of all these shops/eateries. The Hotel and Restaurant Association is allegedly nothing but a bunch of Islamists/green communists, with a few easily pliable Hindus thrown in for the sake of ‘secularism.’
Hindus, meanwhile, are forced to consume rotten halal food for no fault, and the ‘secular’ ones do not seem to mind.
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Kyon karte ho yaar? I am a strict vegetarian, and also foodie. Honestly, I wonder many times why people even feel like killing in order to get taste pleasure. Please look at our AMAZING all vegetarian thalis (from any state) and tell me seriously that you think all that is not enough for your taste pleasure, and that you still have to kill animals to satisfy your palate. It is just the “coolness” factor I feel. It is cooler to eat meat, especially I see this in college students. Plus the Muslims have somehow successfully marketed their meat biriyanis to our masses, who run after it like it is manna from heaven. And what all apart from the dead animal they put into the dish, we all know (hint: thook and mutra). But still our fools will stand in long line in front of “akbar biriyani stall”. Phir maro saalon: tumhe khud ko hi aise shauk chadh gaye hain to koi tumhe nahi bacha sakta. Sorry to say!
The Hindu population of India decreased from 84.1% (1951) to 78.3% (2011), Muslim population increased from 9.4% (1951) to 14.2% (2011). And just wait for next census. It will be closer to 73% Hindu, 20% Muslim, because Hindus have essentially stopped having even mid-sized families (ab ek hi baccha, wo bhi mid 30s me), while Muslims still going strong.
We are being decimated in the last Hindu country. Kerala and W. Bengal me to gone case hi lag raha hai. I see darkness in horizon.
Just seeing pictures of all that meat, all of it rotten, makes me vomit. How are Hindus PAYING to eat such things? Proudly burnishing secular credentials by standing in line for “beeph fry” in Kerala. Will Muslims ever eat Pork to get someone else’s approval? No. The only approval they seek is from their nabi: whatever he said, they do. Baaqi koi aur kya sochta hai, unko koi farak nahi padta. But we Hindus hanker after the approval of everyone. Some Hindus keep Quran in their deoghar. Don’t laugh: it’s true. Sarvanand Kaul Premi used to do it. And what did he get in return? Tortured to death by followers of that same book. Hindus, stop your foolishness. Just follow Sanatan Dharm: not some secularism (which is a very mild form of Islam for dhimmies). Bhaad me gaya Islam: I don’t want ANY of it. Not a single bit of it.