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Guwahati : Amidst uproar over beef in the country, three Muslims including a minor were arrested by police in Upper Assam's Jorhat district on Tuesday night on charges of by carrying beef openly which hurting religious sentiments.
It is the first incident in Assam as police arrested someone who carrying beef for consumption.
According to the reports, Shah Jamal Haque, Abdul Rahman and a minor boy were arrested by Jorhat police on charges of carrying beef openly in Jorhat town.
On Wednesday, two accused were sent to 14-day judicial custody while the minor accused sent to an observation home by the Jorhat CJM court.
Police had seized nearly half kilogram of beef from the accused persons, who had brought it from a slaughterhouse in the upper Assam town for consumption.
According to the reports, the accused persons who engaged as workers at a private industrial training institute in the town were booked under section 295 (A) of IPC and section 568 of the Assam Cattle Preservation Act, 1950.
Meanwhile, Jorhat police has initiated a probe concerning the legal status of the slaughterhouse.
Assam become the first saffron state in north east India after BJP emerged in last assembly poll in the state in 2016 by winning 60 seats alone in the 126-member state assembly.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
