Udupi/Mangaluru, Jun 24: As many as five suspected cattle transporters landed in police custody and also lost their cattle while transporting them in two different places in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts on Thursday.
In the first incident reported from Mulki on the outskirts of Mangaluru, a team of police intercepted a vehicle carrying cattle at around 5: 30 a.m.
The police had received information that one Ibrahim was transporting four cows and five calves in a Mahindra Pik-Up. They seized the vehicle along with cattle at Bappanadu checkpoint in Mulki and arrested Ibrahim.
In a separate incident, a vigilante group waylaid an Eco vehicle transporting cattle at Yellur on Kollur-Byndoor road in Udupi district in the evening.
They called the Byndoor police and handed over the cattle and four persons who were transporting them. Police have not yet revealed the identities of the transporters.
It is alleged that the group manhandled the cattle transporters before handing them over to police. A tense atmosphere had prevailed in the area for the sometime.
Byndoor police inspector Santhosh Kaikini and team brought the situation under control.
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if govt permit them for the legal transport. why they will take inhumanly.
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