Prompt action helped East Singhbhum police rescue five cows from a mosque at Golmuri, in the wee hours of Tuesday. The cops also seized a van used by cattle smugglers for ferrying the cattles into the steel city for slaughtering. However, the cattle smugglers managed to flee from the mosque as the police swung into action.
Officer in-charge, Golmuri thana, Satyendra Kumar Singh said that a group of five VHP activists got a tip off that at about 1 am, a cow-laden van was expected to enter the city from Hata.
“Though the VHP activists had tried to stop the van near the Tatanagar railway station, but the van driver hit one of the members of the saffron brigade and moved on high speed. The VHP activists had subsequently followed the van which entered into the Golmuri mosque,” said the officer-in-charge of the Golmuri thana.
According to police, the VHP activists had subsequently informed the police. A police party led by the officer-in-charge arrived at the spot and following instruction from the senior police officer seized the cows as well as the van (bearing registration No JH05EA-3535.
The police had subsequently driven the cattle to a Jugsalai-based shelter place for the cows by driving them in the wee hours.