Assam: Nine held for cattle smuggling, seven vehicles seized in Nagaon
India | May 14, 2022, 07:38 AM ISTPolice also rescued 102 cattle heads and seized seven vehicles in Nagaon.
Police also rescued 102 cattle heads and seized seven vehicles in Nagaon.
Based on secret information, a team of Biswanath police station had intercepted a truck bearing Assam's registration from the Biswanath area.
Altogether 46 people have been killed and at least 108 injured in police action for allegedly trying to flee from custody or attacking personnel since May last year, when the BJP, led by Himanta Biswa Sarma, assumed power in the state.
The accused have told the police that the horns and bones of cattle were mixed with cattle fodder after being powdered.
On a tip-off, police intercepted truck which was on its way to WB from UP at Udaygarh Mong on National Highway 98 and rescued 18 buffaloes, one cow and one bull, Chhatarpur police station in-charge Shekhar Kumar said on Thursday.
Police have rescued 25 cattle that were found locked inside a room at Nalasopara in Maharashtra’s Palghar district.
Police have arrested 10 people for allegedly killing a cow vigilante after he was crushed to death by a tempo illegally transporting cattle in Gujarat's Valsad district, officials said.
The Kolkata-based south Bengal frontier of the Border Security Force (BSF) is tasked to guard 913.32 kms of the India-Bangladesh international border (IB) out of the total 4,096 kms, running across five states and it has recorded official figures to claim that no cattle was smuggled from its side till May, 2021.
BSF troops on Saturday sustained several injuries after they confronted transborder cattle smugglers along the Indo-Bangladesh border.
The Border Security Force (BSF) and police in a joint operation thwarted a major attempt to smuggle cattle, caught 17 smugglers red-handed and rescued 130 cattle from 4 trucks after a tip-off was received from BSF's Intelligence Branch (44 Batallion) in West Bengal's Malda.
Raising slogans against the state government, the locals alleged that 'officials did not understand our plight.'
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday raided two Kolkata premises of a person in connection with a cattle smuggling case along the India-Bangladesh border.
The Madhya Pradesh government started 'Pashu Dhan Bima Yojana' offering insurance cover to the indigenous cattle owned by farmers.
The cattle died after eating the fodder on Monday evening, they said. A medical team has been dispatched to the village for ascertaining the incident
Lobo, who is a BJP MLA from Calangute Assembly constituency, also said that 76 stray cattle from Calangute village, impounded and relocated to a gaushala, were refusing to eat vegetarian food and that specialist veterinarians had been roped in to wean them of their meat fetish.
While probing some cases of property theft, the police on Sunday came across the accused, Asif alias Munna Khayyum Qureshi (29), who owned a mutton shop, and Momin alias Finna Pida Hussain Qureshi (23), who worked at his outlet.
The BSF has arrested cattle smugglers from parts of West Bengal. Being smuggled to Bangladesh, the cows were seized from different locations in border districts of Malda, Murshidabad, North 24 Parganas and Nadia. The BSF also found socket bombs tied to the neck of the cows, which aimed for an explosion in case someone tries to rescue the cows.
Even as the controversy over the deaths of cows in shelters in Uttar Pradesh rages on, BJP MLA from Barabanki Ajay Singh said that the cows had died natural deaths.
Over 100 villagers tied 25 people with a rope and paraded them through a two-km stretch to a police station in Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh on Sunday for allegedly transporting cows to Maharashtra, police said.
The earlier provision prescribed that the custody of an animal can be taken only after the owner has been convicted. A Division Bench of Justices S.A. Bobde and B.R. Gavai asked the central government to file reply on the plea within four weeks.
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