Out of 25 cattle, 11 found dead

Silvester D'Souza

Daijiworld Media Network - Kundapur (SP)

Kundapur, Oct 17: In an incident which happened in front of the rural police station in the town on Monday October 16, a police constable was injured when trying to arrest a few persons accused of indulging in illegal cattle trafficking. The injured policeman, Prashanth Naganna, stands admitted into a private hospital here.

The rural police station here got information that cows wee being illegally transported from the direction of Gulvady via Basrur in the taluk. The policemen, who went into action, had planned to intercept the vehicle carrying cattle over the Gulvady bridge. But the accused succeeded in escaping from being intercepted by the police by a whisker and moved towards Kandlur via Basrur. The police personnel who were in the vehicle, conveyed information to the police station and continued the chase.

They had asked other staff at the police station to set up barricades in front of the rural police station to block the vehicle from proceeding further.

Staff of the station, Ashok and Prashanth Naganna, had erected barricades in front of the police station and awaited arrival of the vehicle. But the vehicle which reached the spot, moved ahead without stopping, by breaking the barricades. As the barricade, hit by the vehicle, flew in the air and got deposited on the knee of Prashanth Naganna, his knee cap was badly damaged. Prashanth was immediately admitted into a private hospital here.The vehicle was later found from near the Gulvady bridge. Out of 25 cattle inhumanly stuffed inside the vehicle, 11 were found dead.

A case about the incident was registered in Kandlur police station. 

Update

District SP Sanjiv Patil visits injured policemen

Daijiworld Media Network – Kundapur (EP)

Kundapur, Oct 17: District SP Sanjiv Patil visited and spoke to injured policeman. Speaking to reporters later, he said that the department had information of the suspects. “Police in two teams are searching and trying to arrest them,” he said. He refused to say if one or more people were involved in the crime. “We have received information on who is involved in it. The case will be solved on the basis of that information,” he added.

To a question by reporters why check posts are not erected everywhere, he said that such posts are erected at all the places which helped to intercept the vehicle used in the illegal trafficking of cattle.

ASP Kumarchandra, DySP Pravin H Nayak, police circle inspector Manjappa, inspectors of police stations in Kundapur, Gangolli, Amasebail and other places also visited the injured policeman.

The stolen cattle were brought to the place. There were loud cries of people who had lost their cattle.

Hundreds of people had gathered at Kundapur rural police station. Additional policemen were present to prevent untoward incidents.