Karnataka news: The accused, Puneeth Kerehalli, a cow vigilante and his team are said to have intercepted the trio, accusing them of transporting cattle illegally for slaughter.
Altogether 46 people have been killed and at least 108 injured in police action for allegedly trying to flee from custody or attacking personnel since May last year, when the BJP, led by Himanta Biswa Sarma, assumed power in the state.
The Kolkata-based south Bengal frontier of the Border Security Force (BSF) is tasked to guard 913.32 kms of the India-Bangladesh international border (IB) out of the total 4,096 kms, running across five states and it has recorded official figures to claim that no cattle was smuggled from its side till May, 2021.
BSF troops on Saturday sustained several injuries after they confronted transborder cattle smugglers along the Indo-Bangladesh border.
The Border Security Force (BSF) and police in a joint operation thwarted a major attempt to smuggle cattle, caught 17 smugglers red-handed and rescued 130 cattle from 4 trucks after a tip-off was received from BSF's Intelligence Branch (44 Batallion) in West Bengal's Malda.
The incident took place in Dak Haripur village falling under Robertsganj police station area, they said.
The central government has banned the sale and purchase of cattle from animal markets for slaughter
Residents of a village near Bangladesh border have lodged an FIR against the BSF claiming that Friday’s firing by its personnel to stop cattle smugglers was actually a fake encounter.
Days after terrifying visuals of a Muslim man being beaten to death by a group of alleged ‘cow vigilantes’ in Rajasthan’s Alwar district stirred a row comes an equally appalling revelation in the case.
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