Four Cattle Smugglers Apprehended in Assam's Kokrajhar

Kokrajhar, June 13, 2019:

In connection with the special drive against "Illegal Cattle Smuggling and Syndicates" as directed by DGP of Assam Kuladhar Saikia, the Kokrajhar district police on Thursday apprehended four cattle smugglers on Thursday.

While two of the smugglers were apprehended from Rupsi village under Gossaigaon police station, the other two were nabbed from Khoraghat village under Bogribari Police station.

In Rupshi village, the miscreants who were apprehended have been apprehended have been identified as Saheb Ali and Nayeb. Eight cattle were seized from their houses.

In Khoraghat, Soleman Ali and Keramat Ali were nabbed by the Kokrajhar Police were nabbed and eleven cattle were seized from their possession.

It may be mentioned that in a similar crackdown against cattle smuggling, in a joint operation, the Dhubri and South Salmara-Mankachar Police apprehended 12 cattle smugglers on Wednesday.

Police also recovered 13 cattle and some iron fence cutting tools from their possession.

Multiple pre-dawn raids were conducted at various locations of both the districts simultaneously by the police against notorious smugglers and their associates.

Altogether eight smugglers were arrested from Mankachar and four smugglers were arrested from Dhubri district.

BSF officials guarding the Dhubri and Mankachar sections of Assam along the border say cattle smugglers keep devising new methods of sending cattle to Bangladesh for feeding the beef and leather industry there. The cattle smugglers usually operate after dark.

The illegal cross-border cattle trade is said to be worth ₹5,000 crore annually, according to a 2017 report by a Central intelligence agency. Such is the demand that a cow — usually one past productivity — that costs ₹5,000 in India fetches up to ₹50,000 from buyers in Bangladesh.

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