Police have arrested eight persons for illegally transporting 200 cattle to Kolkata from the National Highway-5 near Panikoili in Jajpur district. According to Jajpur SP Anup Kumar Sahu, four trucks in which the cattle were being transported illegally from Kendrapada area on Monday were also seized. He informed that the cattle smugglers belonged to Bhadrak district and were being interrogated. The arrested were forwarded to the court and later remanded to judicial custody after their bail applications were rejected.