Court Cancels UP Ex-Minister's Plea Over Complaint Against His Meat Business
NDTV
The minister also turned down former minister Haji Yaqoob Qureshi's plea to stay his possible arrest following the registration of the FIR against him and another person involved in the meat processing business in Meerut.
The Allahabad High Court has dismissed a plea by a former Uttar Pradesh minister to cancel an FIR, lodged against him for allegedly running his meat processing business in Meerut without a valid licence.
A bench of justices Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Rajnish Kumar also turned down former minister Haji Yaqoob Qureshi's plea to stay his possible arrest following the registration of the FIR against him and another person involved in the meat processing business in Meerut.
The FIR, lodged under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at Kharkhoda police station in Meerut district accused Mr Qureshi of processing previously-stored meat and procuring fresh meat for his unit without any valid licence and after the expiry of his previous one.
The FIR also accused him of endangering people's health in the neighbourhood of the meat processing unit owing to the air pollution caused by the foul smell emanating from the unit.
