Owner booked for letting cattle on road

Vadodara: Like every monsoon when two sites – potholed roads and stray cattle occupying roads – are common in Banyan City, this year too, the situation is of no different.
Almost every area of the city has been witnessing the menace of stray cattle for several weeks now.
However, it was only on Monday that two offences were registered against a cattle owner at Manjalpur police station for letting the bovine out on road posing danger to commuters.
According to the complaint lodged by a health department official of Vadodara Municipal Corporation, Dharmendra Parmar, who lives at Makarpura GIDC, had let his six buffaloes, three calves and three cows out on road for grazing.
VMC officials said that Parmar had let the bovine on roads on August 18 and 19 due to which commuters’ lives were put at risk. On both occasions, the civic body had seized Parmar’s cattle.
Every year during the rainy season, the movement of cattle increases on roads and most of the time, the bovine occupies the entire road.
In past, many commuters had died after they rammed their vehicles with the animals.