Few weeks after Special Branch Dimapur arrested five butchers for selling low quality meat and using faulty machines and weighting stones, the department of Legal Metrology and Consumer Protection Monday arrested three persons for using “unequal arm length weighting machine”, from Nagarjan junction, Dimapur.
Assistant controller of legal metrological and consumer protection, C. Yapang told media persons that the butchers were also found using “unpurified weighting stones.”
The three arrested butchers were identified as Toka Sema, John Rengma and Moa Jamir. Around 150 kilograms of pork was also seized by the department. Yapang said the weighting stones were not purified by the department.
He said today’s raid was to create awareness to the public and added the department would carry out such raids to check the use of faculty machines in and around Dimapur. Last year too, the department had arrested butchers from Nagarjan jucntion for using “unequal arm length weighting machine”.
Earlier, Yapang warned consumers to be vigilant while buying pork as many butchers in and around Dimapur were cheating customers using “unequal arm weighing machines”.
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