Jammu: After seizing a tanker carrying animals to the valley, Kathua police on Thursday thwarted a unique smuggling effort and saved 16 cows in Lakhanpur in Punjab-Jamu and Kashmir Gateway in Kathua Regency from a specially designed truck.
The police said, “A senior police officer said that the police team led by Sumeet Sharma Inspector, Station House Officer, police station, Lakhanpur, under the supervision of DY SP Kathua Sukhdev Singh, watched the closed truck (HR58A / 4027) and stopped him to check.
” “16 Bovines, 8 cows & 8 ox were found to be published in the truck, police said, added,” But the truck driver escaped from the place while all the cows were saved and the truck was saved.
“A case under FIR.
83/2021 has been registered at the Lakhanpur police station and investigation begin.
Senior Police Supervisor (SSP), Kathua, Ramesh Kotwal has directed the officers to keep the smuggling of illegal Bovines and took hard action against the perpetrators, he said.
Police Kathua thwarted smuggling bovines
