Summary:
Meat retailers of Nizamuddin and some restaurants that serve buffalo meat expressed concerns over poor business. Buffalo traders’ association president Aaqil said he had written to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik highlighting such incidents. Mohammad Irfan, a member of the buffalo traders’ association, said the number of animals sold on Id this time around reduced to a mere 500 from 3,000 in 2016. This is the time when the demand for buffalo meat shoots up in the city, with thousands of animals sold at the market on the festival. Traders feel that the controversy surrounding cow slaughter and harassment of transporters in the name of animal cruelty have adversely affected the meat and dairy trades in the Capital..