Daijiworld Media Network - Byndoor (SP)

Byndoor, Dec 26: The police busted a racket involved with hoodwinking of the police, by acting against illegal trafficking of cattle on Friday December 25. In this particular case, the traffickers had used an insulator vehicle used to transport fishes for misleading the police. However, a police team led by police circle inspector, Santosh A Kaikini, unearthed the plan and foiled the plan.

The police got reliable information and therefore signalled the insulator vehicle to stop when it came there. They then chased the vehicle which sped away, and intercepted it near Belake in Bhatkal taluk. It was found that 14 cattle, legs of which were bound together and bundled into the vehicle inhumanly, were being transported to the slaughterhouse. A person named Jaleel from Navunda had provided escort to the vehicle in a motorbike, but at the sight of the police, he turned his vehicle and sped away. The insulator vehicle was following the bike.

When the vehicle went away without stopping, the police asked the personnel at the Shirur check post to stop it but the driver went away without stopping at Shirur tollgate. The check post staff followed the vehicle in a motorbike and stopped it near Belake. The driver, taking advantage of dark conditions, ran away.

The vehicle was brought back to Shirur tollgate where the police found that the limbs of the 12 grownup cows and two calves had been tied together in a violent manner and they were bundled one over the other inside the truck that suffocated them.

In a case registered at Byndoor police station, it was mentioned that Jaleel from Navunda, along with others, was illegally transporting cattle in fish transportation vehicle and that he is involved with preparing beef and transporting them to other states.