Police recover 20 animals from Bengal-bound oil tanker in Jamshedpur

Jamshedpur: A team of police recovered as many as 20 cattle from inside a petrol tanker on the NH-6 under the Baharagora thana area in the Ghatsila sub-division of the East Singhbhum district. The animals were being transported 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 cattle smuggling near the Kaliadanga bridge. 

Among the seized animals eight of them cows and six calves who were found lying tied to ropes by their necks as well as legs. Police have arrested the driver of the tanker who was identified as Sheikh Siraz whereas two others managed to escape.  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 police got specific information about the tanker in question, sources said adding that the rescued animals have been sent to a Goshala in adjoining Chakulia and the arrested person has being sent to Ghatsila Sub-jail.