Puttur: Huge Racket of Illegal Cattle Trafficking Busted - Eight Arrested
News and pics: Arun Uppinangady
Daijiworld Media Network - Puttur (SP)
Puttur, Apr 25: In an operation launched by a team led by Puttur assistant superintendent of police Chandragupta at around 4.30 am on national highway 48 at Perne village on Saturday April 25, the policemen succeeded in intercepting seven trucks in which over 250 heads of cattle were being illegally transported under inhuman conditions and have arrested eight people so far, in this connection.
Acting on the information collected by the policemen that illegal cattle trafficking has been going on the national highway in a routine manner, the ASP himself decided to lead the operation. He intercepted the trucks including two huge containers, loaded with cattle. As soon as the confiscated trucks reached Uppinangady police station, the cries of the hapless animals could be heard from a distance from inside the vehicles.
As the doors and tarpaulins covering the trucks were opened one by one, a huge scene of suffering animals unfolded. As cows had been loaded into the trucks with their legs tied with ropes and were heaped on one another, over 10 cows were found dead in the vehicles.
The truck drivers said the cattle were loaded at Hassan. The assistant superintendent (ASP) of police is of the opinion that this is a part of a huge organized cow trafficking racket.
Kumar from Belur, Shaukat, Kabir, Dastagiri Sab, Mudassir etc from Periyapatna have been arrested. Uppinangady policemen have registered a case and investigating under the guidance of the ASP.