Police seized a huge quantity of dead chickens put on sale from a cold store in the capital.
A special team of the Metropolitan Police Circle, Balaju, had carried out the raid based on information that Nand Kishore Gupta, 50, of Bettiah, Bihar, was selling meat of dead chickens from his Welcome Cold Store.
Police have confiscated as many as 31 dead chicken from the store.
Of the seized dead whole chickens, 73 were butchered and 58 were not butchered. Police said that they were investigating Gupta’s claim to ascertain whether the chickens died on the way or were already dead when they were loaded from Sarlahi.
Police has arrested owner Gupta and confiscated the chickens for investigation.
