KARACHI: The medical team of Karachi Metropolitan Corporation and police carried out a raid in Landhi, sealed two `illegal` slaughterhouses, arrested one suspect and seized 30 live calves, whose meat was to be sold to restaurants as `mutton`, said officials on Sunday.Sukhan police SHO Zubair Nawaz said acting on a tip-off, the police conducted raids in Bhains Colony against illegal slaughterhouses where buffalo calves were being slaughtered, which were later on to be sold to highway restaurants as `goat meat` The police arrested an owner of an `illegal business` and recovered 30 live calves and carcassesof10 slaughteredones.

During the preliminary interrogation, the owner, Bahawal Deen Afghani, disclosed that they had been slaughtering these calves for the last eight months, and they were being sold to restaurants on Superhighway as mutton.The SHO said that during the raid at `Shah Meer cattle farm` on Road-7 of Cattle Colony, two suspects Shah Meer Afghani and another escaped.

The officer said that the KMC veterinary team led by Dr Taj seized the carcasses of slaughtered calves and disposed them of at the KMC ground while live calves were confiscated.

The SHO said the police had registered an FIR against the held suspect under Section 8-A of the Slaughter Act read with Section 269 (spread infection) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code.