THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The news that beef food items are excluded from the menu of Kerala police trainees is baseless, a press notice issued by police reads. It further said the direction was to prepare healthy food using the products available in each region and in accordance with the decision made by the mess committee.

Training of new trainee batch for several battalions was started on Saturday. The menu prepared by the Thrissur Police Academy, which was to be forwarded to all camps, didn't have beef dishes. The current explanation from Kerala police deputy director comes after the news that Kerala police issued food menu without beef did rounds on the internet.