Photo Essay: Cut and dried 5 Photos . Updated: 24 Apr 2015, 09:46 PM IST Livemint After last month's beef ban in Maharashtra, some of the butchers at the Deonar abattoir, once the busiest in Mumbai, find there are no takers for their skills 1/5Photographs: Aniruddha Chowdhury/Mint. Syed Hasham, 67, who worked for more than 44 years at the abattoir, is out of work. He says he is too old to learn new skills. 2/5Pasha Sheikh, 65, outside the abattoir. He has worked there for 40 years. 3/5Younus Qureishi, 34, who has been working at the slaughterhouse for 17 years, is hopeful that the ban will be overturned. 4/5Small butcheries near the Deonar abattoir. Mutton is now sought after. 5/5Raquib, 24, is trying to pick up new skills.