In a success against illegal cattle traffickers, police seized a truck carrying over 72 cows near Jamua on Giridih-Bokaro NH road under Jamua police limits in the Giridih district here on Monday afternoon and arrested the six persons including driver, said Giridih Superintendent of police SK Jha. The raid was conducted after Giridih superintendent of police S.K. Jha got a tip-off on the cattle laden four-wheeler lorry truck late in the afternoon. A police team led by Officer-in charge , Santosh Kumar ,which intercepted the truck near the NH and found over 72 cows and buffaloes which were being transported under inhumane conditions during the search. At least 8 cows were found sick in the vehicle also.The arrested persons identified as Sunil Singh,Virendra Kumar,Deepak Kumar, Santosh Prasad,Anil Kumar,Fottu Yadav.
Police seized the vehicle, which were piloting it. However the someone others who were sitted in the vehicles managed to flee from the spot.
"The trucks were carrying an illegal cattle consignment from Bihar to Bokaro. The seized cows and buffaloes would be sent to the Giridih Kharagdiha Goshala,” said SP of Giridih.
Notably, Bengabad and Bagodar Police had seized a cattle-laden container truck from the NH-2 in the area in a similar fashion around 5 months ago and arrested few persons.
