Attempt to steal cow from VMC’s cattle pound thwarted

Vadodara: A day after an allegation surfaced of cattle impounders of Vadodara Municipal Corporation being hand-in-glove with cattle owners, an attempt of stealing a cow from the civic body’s cattle pound was thwarted on Saturday.
When VMC’s market superintendent Vijay Panchal reached the cattle pound in Lalbaug in the evening, he noticed a cow being taken away in a pick-up truck from there. When Panchal asked the truck driver, Ramesh Bajaniya, about the cow, the latter informed that the cow was being taken to Gorwa.
Panchal told the police that he became suspicious about the bovine being taken away and so, he called the employees working at the pound and asked about the cow. The staff, and the security guard of the cattle pound said that the cow was impounded on Saturday morning from Gorwa area and brought there.
Police said that the employees said that they were unaware who took the cow out of the pound. They said that when they were busy tagging the cattle and registering them, some unidentified persons broke into the cattle pound and managed to take the cow out and also load it on the pick-up truck.
The cow was returned to the cattle pound and an offence was registered against Bajaniya and other unidentified persons at Makarpura police station.