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Nine persons, including one from Bihar, have been arrested for their alleged involvement in supplying meat of dead animals to different restaurants, the police official said. "We are trying to find out to which restaurants they were supplying. "As per the main accused's admission and prima facie, the packaged meat was that of dead animals meant to be supplied to restaurants in these areas," he said. The matter came to light when two persons were arrested by the South 24 Parganas district police last week for their alleged involvement in supplying meat of dead animals to eateries.The two were nabbed by locals when they were carrying the meat carved from the carcasses left in a dumping ground in Budge Budge area in neighbouring South 24 Parganas district. "While six persons were arrested last night, three others including the main accused, who is a resident of Bihar's Nawada district, were arrested this morning," Diamond Harbour police district Superintendent of Police Koteswara Rao Nalavath told PTI..