Thursday, 29 October 2015

Buffalo meat back in Kerala House

Buffalo meat back in Kerala House

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Hindu Sena man questioned andput under preventive arrest

People buying lunch coupons at Kerala House canteen inNew Delhi on Wednesday.— Photo: V. Sudershan
People buying lunch coupons at Kerala House canteen inNew Delhi on Wednesday.— Photo: V. Sudershan
After a day’s hiatus, buffalo-meat dishes made a comeback on the menu of the Kerala House canteen on Wednesday. With food buffs coming in large numbers, the dishes were sold out in just 45 minutes.
However, the canteen management decided to rename the dishes meat fry and curry with “buffalo” in brackets. The police raided the eatery two days ago on a complaint from Hindu Sena activists that cow meat was being served.
Joining the long list of customers who had lunch at the canteen were M.A. Baby, Nilotpal Basu and Ritabrata Banerjee, Communist Party of India (Marxist) leaders, and V. Sivadasan, president, Students Federation of India.
Vishnu Gupta, the Hindu Sena man who made the complaint, has been booked under Section 107/151 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and put under preventive arrest at the Parliament Street police station. Earlier, he was called for questioning and arrested. He was produced before a court, a police source said.
The police have submitted a report to the Union Home Ministry, Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi said. In the report, the police have said the menu was neither displayed nor shared with the police by the canteen staff upon their visit. “The canteen staff said the menu is prepared on a daily basis, and no copy is available with them. During the conversation, a staff member of the canteen was briefed to remain alert and inform the police in case of any issue or vandalism. Thereafter, the SHO [Station House Officer], Parliament Street, along with PCR [police control room] staff, took position at the gate so that no untoward incident took place.”

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