Mangalore: Bajrang Dal Activists Stop Tempo Transporting Cow
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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (BG)
Mangalore, Oct 3: A mini tempo that is said to have been illegally trafficking a cow was stopped and handed over to the police by Bajrang Dal activists at Kulashekar here on Wednesday October 3.
It was alleged that a person by name Padmanabha had sold his 5-year-old cow to a person in Ulaibettu. The cow was being transported to Ulaibettu from Padmanabha's residence in Maroli.
Padmanabha was also in the tempo when the Bajrang Dal activists forcibly stopped it. The tempo, its driver and Padmanabha together with the cow were taken to Mangalore rural police station. The person who purchased the cow is absoconding. His identity is as yet unknown.
Speaking to daijiworld, one of the Bajrang Dal activists said that acting on genuine information, they stopped the vehicle near Kulshekar Dairy and handed over its occupants to the police.
Padmanabha said that he had sold the cow to a Muslim at Ulaibettu as the latter had told him that he wanted to domesticate a cow. He had asked Padmanabha to come in the tempo while he would follow in his two-wheeler. He is said to have escaped as soon as the Bajrang Dal activists stopped the tempo.
The tempo driver confirmed to Daijiworld that he had no connection with the person from Ulaibettu. "The person had hired my tempo and I agreed only after I came to know that Padmanabha too would be accompanying the man," he said.
Padmanabha, the tempo driver, the cow and the tempo are in the rural police station and search for the absconding man are on.