Did You Know: Eating Beef Patties Could Now Land You In Jail For 5 Years #OnlyInIndia

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The beef trade in the state is largely controlled by Muslims of the Qureshi caste. "Apart from rendering people jobless, the immediate effect will be the spiralling price of other meats as people will be forced to gravitate to them," president of the Mumbai Suburban Beef Dealer Association Mohammed Qureshi said.

Beef, generally seen as the poor man's meat, costs almost a third of mutton. Mumbai alone consumes nearly 90,000 kg of mutton every day, sold through 900 licensed stalls and an equal number of illegal stalls.

Beef traders said they are checking if they can take legal recourse. "We are now holding deliberations to see if we can challenge this in any way. The beef traders have been impacted but it will be the farmers who will be affected the most," Arif Chowdhury, an office bearer of the All India Jamiatul Quresh, an organisation of beef traders, said.