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PUNE: Two youths filed cross-complaints over suspicion of ferrying beef and ransacking of a car at the Airport police station on Sunday.

Shivshankar Swami (23), a city-based activist, stopped a pick-up van on suspicion that it was carrying beef at the Kharadi bypass off Pune-Ahmednagar highway on Sunday morning.

He lodged a complaint against some youths for slaughtering and ferrying what he suspected to be beef.

"These youths or their accomplices had slaughtered cows near Ahmednagar and were ferrying the beef in a milk van," he alleged.

The youths Swami was referring to were travelling in a car that was accompanying the van. One of the youths, Arbaj Shaikh, filed a complaint against Swami and his accomplices that he and his friends were beaten up and that their car was damaged.

Senior inspector Sanjay Kurundkar of the Airport police station said, "It is not known from where these youths brought the meat that is suspected to be beef and where the cattle were slaughtered. Police are investigating the case."

Shaikh (19), a resident of Bhimpura in Pune Camp, said he was heading home in his car and was accompanying the pick-up truck when Swami and some other people stopped their vehicle. He said the youths broke both the front and rear windshields of his car.

Kurundkar said Shaikh told the police that he was returning to Pune from Aurangabad.

