Two collectors of dead chicken jailed
The two miscreants jailed by a mobile court yesterday for collecting dead chicken, from trucks bringing in live ones to the wholesale chicken market near Tejgaon Railway Station, to sell in different food shops and restaurants in the capital.Photo: STAR
Two people were arrested and jailed by a mobile court yesterday for collecting dead chicken, from trucks bringing in live ones to the capital, to sell in restaurants. A total 102 chicken carcasses were seized from their possession, a good number of which had already been dressed. Arrestee Delwar Hossain Delu, 42, will spend two years while the other, Reshma alias Kali, 35, will spend one and a half years behind bars, said Executive Magistrate Anwar Pasha, who led the mobile court. Rapid Action Battalion-2 assisted the drive at a wholesale chicken market near Tejgaon Railway Station. Anwar said, “Around 1.5 lakh chickens are brought to this market, the biggest in the capital, on trucks which need around 10 to 15 hours to arrive from different parts of the country. “On the way, heat and exhaustion causes around 2,000 chickens to die. Several groups of local cheats collect the carcasses just as the trucks enter the market, dress them instantly and sometimes preserve them in lemon juice.” The arrestees confessed that they used to sell the dead chicken to some restaurants and fast food shops in Uttara, Gulshan and Dhanmondi at cheap prices, he added. Some restaurant owners knowingly buy the dead chicken to make a quick buck while some employees themselves do so behind the back of the owners, said Anwar. “According to the Consumer Rights Protection Act , selling dead chicken meat is a punishable offence. The arrestees also admitted that they had earlier been caught by police for the same offence,” he added.
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