Chatterpur police on Tuesday night intercepted two truckloads of buffaloes on NH 98 and arrested three people in this connection under different sections of IPC and Prevention of Cruelty to Animals act.
DSP, Chhaterpur Shambhu K Singh said Probationer DSP VK Tripathy and cops of Chhaterpur poluce station intercepted these two trucks and got freed 39 buffaloes.
Singh further said these two trucks had UP registration numbers and were coming from Garhwa to Chhaterpur. Among the 39 buffaloes 22 are calves.
Probationer DSP Tripathy declined to give names of the arrested persons but when he was made aware that there are people other than a particular community here too who are engaged in smuggling of cattle by truck probationer he sounded pensive and sought time to see to this.
In another incident Daltonganj police rescued 66 calves which were being smuggled by two trucks at 3 am on the night of December 20 and arrested 7 people in this connection identified as Prince Kumar Singh, Raju Ranjan, Rupa Singh, Subhash Singh Pappu Yadav Sarwan Yadav and Ramshesh Yadav. DSP Daltonganj Premnath has confirmed the rescue of 66 calves and arrest of 7 people in this case.
Sources said the total number of arrests and trucks goes to 10 and four respectively in one night in Palamu and the number of cattle rescued from being smuggled stands at 109.