Excelsior Correspondent
RAMBAN, July 31: Ramsoo Police here today arrested eight persons and rescued 123 bovine animals.
Police sources said that on specific information regarding bovine smuggling, SHO Police Station Ramsu, Inspector Saroop Singh laid a Naka on highway and intercepted four trucks bearing registration numbers JK19A-8765, JK02AQ-2711, JK02AR-8377 and JK19-0062 heading towards Kashmir.
All the four trucks were found loaded with 123 bovine animals with utmost cruelty and in unhygienic conditions and without any arrangement of food and water.
Inspector Saroop Singh said that three separate cases under Section 188 IPC and 3 PC (Prevention of Cruelty) Act were registered at Police Station Ramsu and the vehicles involved in transportation of bovines were also seized.
The bovines were rescued under the supervision of Nisar Ahmed Khoja, SDPO Banihal with the overall supervision of SP Ramban, Mohita Sharma.