meerut a meat factory owned by former minister and bsp leader haji yakoob qureshi was raided on wednesday night and a large consignment of meat worth rs 5 crores was seized the factory was operating despite its licence having expired the national security act will be slapped on qureshi and his family members the police said situated in alipur area near kharkhoda the factory was sealed in 2019 after the construction was found in violation of green belt norms the raid was conducted after receiving a tipoff that meat processing was going on inside the factory during the raid a few workers escaped by scaling the wall but we managed to arrest ten of them on friday said ssp meerut prabhakar chaudhary refuting the claim qureshis family said that no illegal operations were taking place in the factory only packaging work was going on we are conducting an investigation whosoever is involved in the illegal operations of the factory will be brought to book said district magistrate meerut k balaji an fir has been filed against 14 persons including qureshi his two sons and wife under ipc sections 420 cheating 120b criminal conspiracy 269 spreading infection of a disease and 272 adulteration of food or drink intended for sale qureshi was a minister in the bsp government in up and made headlines after announcing a reward of rs 51 crore for beheading the danish newspaper cartoonist who had drawn a caricature of prophet mohammad in 2006