In a success against illegal cattle traffickers, police seized 12 trucks including one pick-up van carrying over 415 cows at two different points on Dhanwar-Bagodar NH-2 under Dhanwar and Birni police limits in the district here on Wednesday morning and arrested the 14 drivers, said Giridih SDPO of Khori Mahua Rajiv Kumar.
The raid was conducted after Giridih superintendent of police S.K. Jha got a tip-off on the cattle laden trucks late in the night . A police team led by SDPO, Khori Mahua, Rajiv Kumar,Officer-in charge of Dhanwar and Jamua PS namely Kamlesh Kumar Singh, Dileswar Kumar and Jai Prakash Narayan , intercepted the lorries near Dhanwar area on the NH-2 and found over 415 cows, which were being transported to Bengal under pathetic conditions during the search. At least 8 cows were found sick in the vehicle.
Police seized the 11 lorries and one pick-up van , which was piloting the fleet. However the others who were sitting in the vehicles managed to flee from the spot.
"The trucks were carrying an illegal cattle consignment from the UP to neighbouring West Bengal State. The seized cows would be sent to the Giridih Goshala,” said S.K.Jha, SP of Giridih.
Notably, Birni Police has also seized 3 cattle-laden container truck from the NH-2 in the area in a similar fashion around late in the morning and arrested few persons,added Kumar.