KOLKATA: Bishwanath Ghorui, aka ‘Mangsho Bishu’, the arrested kingpin of the carcass meat racket who has hundreds of meat-loving Kolkatans shuddering in revulsion at the sight of meat, can depend one from his own home — his wife.
Sadhana had stopped consuming her favorite dishes when the racket was busted in the second week of April. “I felt like throwing up. We even stopped having rooster because the sight of it jogged my memory of useless animals,” says the 56-year-old.
She stopped cooking meat at home the day she heard that some males have been arrested for selling carcass meat from the Budge Budge dumpyard. She had let loose a silent curse that day, little realizing that it was her husband who was the mastermind of the racket.
So when police officers landed at her Tetulberia home in Sonarpur on Thursday, she couldn’t consider that her husband was in the back of selling meat undeserving for human consumption.
“I used to be stunned when the police officers arrived to arrest my husband. He is a wholesaler of fish and did not maintain meat,” said a defensive Sadhana on Friday, still refusing to consider her husband’s role. Ghorui is in police custody till May 8.
Tetulberia, a middle-class locality, is abuzz ever since the information of Ghorui’s arrest spread on Thursday, and the neighbours are livid.
“He must be handed probably the most severe punishment for this crime,” says Alok Dey, a neighbour who idea Ghorui best bought fish.
One will even ignore a petty crime or an financial offence. But mixing carcass meat with contemporary one is a heinous crime. It is like giving anyone poison,” says a homemaker from the neighbourhood.
Locals say Ghorui, who began off as a wholesaler of fish in Sealdah, normally saved to himself. He would go away home early and return past due at night. Only all through the Pujas was he noticed mingling together with his neighbours.
Biswanath earned the nickname ‘Mangsho Bishu’ because of the benefit with which he may provide big consignments of meat and fish even at brief understand. Whether it was a marriage rite or annaprashan, a political serve as or a post-puja get-together, Biswanath was the go-to man for meat within the space.
“Every caterer, puja committee and political employee in Sonarpur knew that they will get meat at only one place the volume and the time notwithstanding. This is why Biswanath is called Mangsho Bishu,” says Panna Lal Ghosh, who runs Lokenath Caterer in Garia.
Neighbours say they are compelled to hold their heads in disgrace because of one man who has introduced disrepute to their locality.
“Tetulberia is an strange neighbourhood the place middle-class other people have made their homes. We never idea the name of this space will probably be smeared on this means because of one individual. We are having to hold our heads in disgrace,” says Bikash Pramanik, a local resident.
The Ghoruis had been citizens of Tetulberia for decades living in a two-storey space that wishes a contemporary coat of paint. The couple has two sons and a daughter however none of them has joined their father’s trade.
Sadhana had stopped consuming her favorite dishes when the racket was busted in the second week of April. “I felt like throwing up. We even stopped having rooster because the sight of it jogged my memory of useless animals,” says the 56-year-old.
She stopped cooking meat at home the day she heard that some males have been arrested for selling carcass meat from the Budge Budge dumpyard. She had let loose a silent curse that day, little realizing that it was her husband who was the mastermind of the racket.
So when police officers landed at her Tetulberia home in Sonarpur on Thursday, she couldn’t consider that her husband was in the back of selling meat undeserving for human consumption.
“I used to be stunned when the police officers arrived to arrest my husband. He is a wholesaler of fish and did not maintain meat,” said a defensive Sadhana on Friday, still refusing to consider her husband’s role. Ghorui is in police custody till May 8.
Tetulberia, a middle-class locality, is abuzz ever since the information of Ghorui’s arrest spread on Thursday, and the neighbours are livid.
“He must be handed probably the most severe punishment for this crime,” says Alok Dey, a neighbour who idea Ghorui best bought fish.
One will even ignore a petty crime or an financial offence. But mixing carcass meat with contemporary one is a heinous crime. It is like giving anyone poison,” says a homemaker from the neighbourhood.
Locals say Ghorui, who began off as a wholesaler of fish in Sealdah, normally saved to himself. He would go away home early and return past due at night. Only all through the Pujas was he noticed mingling together with his neighbours.
Biswanath earned the nickname ‘Mangsho Bishu’ because of the benefit with which he may provide big consignments of meat and fish even at brief understand. Whether it was a marriage rite or annaprashan, a political serve as or a post-puja get-together, Biswanath was the go-to man for meat within the space.
“Every caterer, puja committee and political employee in Sonarpur knew that they will get meat at only one place the volume and the time notwithstanding. This is why Biswanath is called Mangsho Bishu,” says Panna Lal Ghosh, who runs Lokenath Caterer in Garia.
Neighbours say they are compelled to hold their heads in disgrace because of one man who has introduced disrepute to their locality.
“Tetulberia is an strange neighbourhood the place middle-class other people have made their homes. We never idea the name of this space will probably be smeared on this means because of one individual. We are having to hold our heads in disgrace,” says Bikash Pramanik, a local resident.
The Ghoruis had been citizens of Tetulberia for decades living in a two-storey space that wishes a contemporary coat of paint. The couple has two sons and a daughter however none of them has joined their father’s trade.
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