After Hemanta Biswas Sarma became Chief Minister of Assam, the Assam police and the Border Security Force (BSF) have taken stern measures to end the illegal smuggling and transportation of cows into Bangladesh.
So now cow smugglers are looking for a new route as the Assam police and BSF have almost sealed all the transit routes to Bangladesh through land and water.
Also helping the authorities is the enacting the Cattle Protection Act 2021 in Assam which has allowed the police to take tough action against cow smugglers.
Guwahati city police on Tuesday (November 30) successfully managed to intercept six trucks carrying 131 cows without valid documents.
The police suspected that the cows were stolen and transported from Sonitpur and Sivasagar district and in that process, the police seized the vehicles and arrested 6 cow smugglers Md. Abdul Sattar, Md. Ikramul Hussain, Md. Saidul Talikdar, Makhidul Islam, Jamiruddin, Amir Karmakar and Dipak Nahak.
All arrested cow smugglers are from the Samaguri area of Nagaon district and the cows that were being transported were on their way to Bangladesh through Meghalaya.
In Nagaon, the police have recovered 112 Cattles and arrested 21 cow smugglers and 10 vehicles were also seized in various areas under Kaliabor Sub-division in the last two weeks for attempting to illegally transport cows for butchering.
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