Uttar Pradesh Police raid BSP chief Haji Yakoob Qureshi’s Meerut meat manufacturing facility

By ANI

MEERUT: Uttar Pradesh Police raided a meat manufacturing facility owned by former state minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief, Haji Yakoob Qureshi, in Meerut, stated officers on Friday. Meerut SSP Prabhakar Choudhary knowledgeable that the manufacturing facility, owned by the previous minister, was working illegally in Meerut.

Police stated {that a} case has been registered in opposition to 14 individuals concerned within the operations of the manufacturing facility below the Gangster Act. A complete of 10 individuals have been arrested thus far. “A case has been registered against 14 people while 10 of them have been arrested. We found that it was running illegally. Action will be taken against the culprits under the Gangster Act. Further probe is underway,” Choudhary instructed ANI.

Qureshi had contested the 2019 Lok Sabha election in Uttar Pradesh and misplaced by a slim margin to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Rajendra Agarwal. In 2007, he was a minister within the BSP authorities in UP.

Qureshi had hit the headlines for saying a bounty on the pinnacle of a Danish cartoonist who had made a caricature of Prophet Mohammad in 2006.

He was elected from the Meerut seat in 2007 as a UPUDF candidate whereas he subsequently joined the BSP. In 2012, he once more switched to Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) after he was denied a ticket for the Assembly elections by the BSP.