New Town: Police arrested the suspected kingpin of a rotten meat supply chain in the Baguiati-New Town area early on Thursday.
Detective department officers of Bidhannagar commisionerate picked up Mohammed Kausar Ali Dhali, 38, from his relative's house in Hasnabad.
Dhali used to run a chicken supply centre in Aatghora behind City Centre II in New Town, an officer of the commissionerate said.
He owned at least two shops in Baguiati from where he sold a mix of rotten and fresh chicken, the officer claimed.
Dhali was on the run and had switched off his two mobile phones since April 27 when cops raided the supply centre and arrested eight people, including six of his employees, and seized more than 100kg of foul smelling frozen meat.
"Dhali was frequently changing hideouts and had switched off his phone to throw us off his track," Amit P. Javalgi, deputy commisssioner, headquarters, Bidhannagar commissionerate, said.
Dhali has been booked under various IPC sections, including 272 (adulteration of food or drink intended for sale) and 273 (sale of noxious food or drink) and Section 51 of Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006.
A Barrackpore court on Thursday sent Dhali to five days' police custody.
Cops stumbled on Dhali's supply centre after people living near Gate No. 2.5 stopped Nasiruddin Gazi with rotten meat. Gazi told them that he was carrying the meat for Janardan Singh, 48, a Dum Dum resident who runs an eatery in Chinar Park.
The police questioned them together and got to know of Dhali's supply centre.
Dhali, originally from Basirhat in North 24-Parganas, had been staying at the houses of his relatives spread across the district, another officer said. "A search is on for Dhali's brother and cousin."
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