KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, Oct 25: A team of police officials recovered as many as 20 bovines from inside a petrol tanker on the NH-6 under the Baharagora thana area in the Ghatsila sub-division of the district about 90 km away from here early on Tuesday morning.
The bovines were being transported clandestinely from a bordering district of Odisha somewhere in Bengal for slaughtering purposes at an unearthly hour of 3 am when the police cracked the racket.
As cow slaughtering is banned in Odisha as well as Jharkhand and a stretch of four km of the NH-6 connecting Odisha to Bengal falls under Jharkhand, the Baharagora police succeeded to detect the bovine smuggling near the Kaliadanga bridge.
OC, Baharagora thana, Santan Kumar Tiwari who led the raiding team said the bovines were kept inside the tanker in the cruellest manner.
“The bovines eight of them cows and six calves were lying tied to ropes by their necks as well as legs. They were thrust inside the Bharat Petroleum tanker like cotton bags,” said Tiwari while talking to lagatar24.com.
The OC said they have arrested the driver of the tanker who was identified as Sheikh Siraz whereas two others managed to escape.
The police officer stated that the petrol tanker was made in such a design the bovines could be loaded inside it.
“The rear part of the tanker was designed like a wide door, enough to befooling the police. Moreover, as a large number of oil tankers do ply on the NH during the night, such a clandestine act could hardly be detected, but we had, of course, got specific information about the tanker in question, ” Tiwari said.
The OC said the rescued bovines have been sent to a Goshala in adjoining Chakulia and the arrested person is being sent to Ghatsila Sub-jail.
