Assam: Minor held for display of beef

Guwahati: Three construction workers including a minor were booked on charges of carrying beef and hurting religious sentiment in Assam.

Police said that two persons were arrested and a minor has been apprehended under the Assam Cattle Preservation Act, 1950 at Jorhat after some residents lodged an FIR accusing them of displaying beef at public place.

The daily wageworkers, said to be a Bangladeshi migrants, had bought beef on April 4 and on their way back home they showed it to a shopkeeper in Kenduguri area of Jorhat town, saying that they would cook it for dinner.