Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU Oct 9: A day after three carcasses of bovine animals were found under mysterious circumstances in Chenani town, Udhampur, Reasi and Kathua districts of Jammu province observed a complete but peaceful shut down in protest against the alleged sacrilegious act even as the interim postmortem report of the dead animals hint that cause of death was poisoning.
All shops, business establishments and maximum educational institutions remained closed while public transport also did not ply on the road. Protest demonstrations were held in various parts of all the three districts as well as in Ramban.
However, there was no untoward incident from any part of the affected districts and the bandh passed off peacefully. The respective district administration and Police had made elaborate security arrangements to avoid any hostility in the wake of bandh.
“There is no report of any attempt of violence or any other untoward incident even as agitating people briefly blocked the National Highway at a few places but the Police and Civil administration succeeded to pacify the situation peacefully,” said DIG Udhampur-Reasi Range, Surinder Gupta.
Reports from Udhampur said that normal life remained paralyzed in the town as well as in Ramnagar, Majalta and Chenani due to complete bandh while agitating people held strong protest demonstrations and took out rallies.
VHP and Bajrang Dal supporters blocked the National Highway near MH Chowk while activists of JKNPP disrupted vehicular movement on ever busy Dhar road. Shouting slogans, the protesting people were demanding immediate arrest of the culprits in yesterday’s alleged sacrilegious act.
At Chenani, Ramnagar, Majalta, Kud, Reasi, Kathua and Ramban also, similar protests were held by the locals who blocked the National Highway for some time and disrupted vehicular movement.
Police has detained three suspects for questioning into the Chenani episode. Grains of maize and wheat have been found from the intestines of dead animals as well as crows.
“In our opinion, the animals may have died of consuming, poisonous substance, however the final report is subject to the confirmation by FSL Jammu,” says the team of doctors, comprising Dr M K Kaw, Dr Ravi Singh Manhas and Dr Rakesh Kumar, who have signed the interim postmortem report of dead animals.
The samples of ruminal contents and livers of three animals and the samples of Gizzard and liver of the crow have been dispatched to the FSL Jammu through Police Station Chenani for detailed Chemical analysis, informed DC Udhampur, Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary.
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