Excelsior Correspondent
RAJOURI, Oct 31: Sunderbani police foiled a bid to smuggle bovine animals to Kashmir valley and seized two trucks loaded with 34 cattle during early hours today.
Official sources said that a police party during naka on the outskirts of Sunderbani town on Jammu-Poonch highway today intercepted two trucks at around 3.30 am. In view of Diwali festival, the bovine smugglers tried to take advantage of the occasion to smuggle large number of milch animals to Kashmir, apprehending that most of the Police staff will be on leave. Alert cops led by SHO Sunderbani Ravinder Singh under the supervision of ASP (now promoted) Nowshera, Atul Sharma signaled the trucks but the drivers stopped the vehicle at some distance from the nakka point and jumped away and escaped taking cover of darkness.
As the police party reached nearby, the cops found total 34 milch animals loaded in the vehicles. While 18 cattle were loaded in Truck No. HP-38C/7349, sixteen (16) were found packed in truck No. JK02AS/1257. The police seized the trucks along with bovine animals and registered a case against the smugglers and truck drivers. The police said that drivers have been identified and the smugglers accompanying them will also be identified shortly and arrested. It was established that these cattle were being smuggled to Kashmir valley via Mughal Road.
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