About 300 kg of stale chicken

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About 300 kg of stale chicken and other meat was seized from the Kaloor slaughterhouse on Sunday morning in a joint operation by the city police, Health, and Food Safety departments.

Police found the meat, suspected to be more than a week old, stored in several crates packed with ice at a chicken and meat stall. Ravi, 45, of Thammanam, who operated the stall, and two employees Shekhar, 24, of Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu, and Moosa, 25, of Thenkashi in Tamil Nadu, were arrested.

Police are on the lookout for the stall owner, Khalid of Karukappally.

The stale meat was allegedly procured from various hotels in the city. “Big hotels do not use chicken pieces with plenty of bones. The stall operators procure the meat thrown out by them and sell it here,” said a police officer. While chicken outside costs around Rs. 120 per kg, the accused allegedly sold it for between Rs. 30 and Rs. 60 to individuals and small hotel and food stall owners, the police said.

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Former TRAI Chairman Nripendra Misra was Wednesday appointed Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the government promulgated an Ordinance to amend a law that could have prevented him from getting the key post.

Misra is a 1967—batch retired IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre and his appointment will be co-terminus with the term of the Prime Minister or till further orders, according to an order issued by the Ministry of Personnel.

“The Chairperson or any other member ceasing to hold office as such, shall —— (a) be ineligible for further employment under the Central Government or any State Government or (b) not accept any commercial employment, for a period of two years from the date he ceases to hold such office,” says the TRAI Act of 1997 available on the Law Ministry’s website.