Two held for transporting 1.5 tonne ‘beef’

Navi Mumbai: Acting on a tip off from an

NGO

,

Vashi police

arrested two persons and seized a vehicle loaded with 1.5 tonnes of cattle meat at the

Vashi Toll plaza

on the

Sion-Panvel highway

on Friday morning. The meat samples have been sent to

forensic lab

to check whether it was beef.

The police arrested jeep driver and cleaner, Mohammad Rasoj Shabbir (22) and Imtiaz Ahmed Qureshi (24) respectively, of

Kurla

. PSI Ashok Pawar said, "The duo claimed the meat was brought from Karnataka.”