The teams of Punjab Food Authority (PFA) Attock and Patrolling Highway Police (PHP) Kotkay arrested a two-member gang supplying dead chickens and recovered 300 kg of meat.
According to PFA, on a tip-off, the action was taken under the supervision of Assistant Director of Punjab Food Authority Attock, Harmain Ali and in-charge of PHP, Kotkay Check Post, SI Bilal Ahmed.
Two suspects, Naz Malik and Dawood Sanam, were loading dead chickens in an empty vehicle from the loader rickshaw and were arrested on the spot.
Sources said that there are several chicken sheds on Tarbela Road from where dead chickens are picked up by loader rickshaws and taken to farm houses which are sold at food points and restaurants established in various cities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.