aurangabad the pachod police on sunday arrested three members of a family for allegedly slaughtering two cow progenies and seized the beef from their possession we booked a case against three persons under the maharashtra animal preservation amendment act 1995 and have also arrested them this is probably the first case in the district registered under the newly enacted law said bhagwan dabhagde assistant police inspector of the pachod police station 60 km from here the arrested have been identified as shaikh mastan shaikh ibrahim 49 shaikh mohammed shaikh mastan 22 and shaikh zuber shaikh shaikh mastan 20 all residents of ranjangaon dandga in paithan the trio was booked following a complaint lodged by police subinspector deepak pundlikrao sarode in his complaint sarode said around 530am a police team patrolling the area came to know about the alleged act the police team immediately reached the spot and found that the accused had slaughtered two cow progenies valued at rs 55000 police officials said the beef samples would be sent to the laboratory for establishing the fact slaughter of cows was prohibited in the state under the maharashtra animal preservation act 1976 the maharashtra animal preservation amendment bill 1995 extended the ban on the slaughter of bulls and bullocks amitesh kumar special inspector general of police aurangabad range said earlier such cases were registered in beed and nanded districts the one registered at the pachod police station is probably the first here