Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 10: Nagrota police today foiled a bovine smuggling bid by arresting two persons illegally transporting 11 bovines in a truck.
Police sources said that a truck bearing registration number JK19-2834 was intercepted at Sidhra Bridge police naka when it was on its way towards Udhampur.
They said on search of the truck, 11 bovine animals without any permission were found loaded in the truck. The driver of the truck, Mubarak Ali son of Imran and his associate Rayaz Ahmed son of Mohd Dawood, both residents of Batote, were arrested by the police and the vehicle was also seized.
“A case vide FIR number 07/2021 under relevant Sections of Law has been registered in this connection at police station Nagrota,” sources said, adding, the arrest and seizure was made a police team headed by ASI Liaqat Ali of police post Sidhra under the supervision of SHO Nagrota Inspector Mohd Shoket.
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