DK district police rescue cattle in three separate incidents

Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada district police in separate incidents on Tuesday intercepted vehicles in which cattle were being transported in contravention of the Karnataka Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Act, 2010, and Cattle Preservation Act, 1964.
Police seized the vehicles used in transporting the cattle and booked the accused doing so under the relevant sections of the act, superintendent of police B M Laxmi Prasad said.
In the first instance reported from Kadaba police station limits, police on a tip-off intercepted a pick-up at Nelyottu and rescued a cow and calf that were being transported in a cruel manner. Police registered a case against Mohammad Iqbal, 38, a resident of Koila village in Puttur taluk under the above acts as he did not have a permit to transport the cattle. Value of the cattle rescued is Rs 5,000 and the vehicle seized by the police is Rs 2 lakh.
Personnel of Bantwal Rural police station rescued three milch cows and two calves that were found near a hillock behind the house of Hassainar at Siddakatte and seized them under Section 102 of CrPC (power of police officer to seize certain property which may be alleged or suspected to have been stolen). Police said an investigation is on into the ownership of cattle that were found, following the raid conducted on a tip-off on the presence of cattle there.
In the last instance, personnel of Dharmasthala police station on rounds, intercepted a pick-up vehicle that was headed towards Kokkada from Nelyadi at Teppemajalu. Police found six heads of cattle that were being transported in a cruel manner. Police suspect that the cattle in the pick-up vehicle was stolen elsewhere and was being transported to a slaughterhouse. Police subsequently seized the pick-up vehicle and took the cattle under their care.