Mancherial: Three arrested for illegal cattle transportation

Mancherial: Three people were arrested for transporting cruelly tied cattle in Mancherial of Jaipur division on Monday night. 19 bulls and a van were seized from their possession. Jaipur sub-inspector J Sridhar said that Gade Mahesh, Gade Surayya and Komirinni Madhu, natives of Godavarikhani in Peddapalli district, were arrested when they were transporting the cattle from Maharashtra to Telangana in a van at around 11.30 pm.
When the police stopped the vehicle, the three failed to show the relevant documents. On interrogation, the three confessed that they were illegally transporting the cattle to sell them in slaughterhouses in Telangana to earn money as quickly as possible. They told that they used to buy the cattle at cheap prices from weekly markets in different parts of Maharashtra. They revealed that they used to deceive the police by saying that they would sell the bulls to farmers. The cattle were handed over to a cow sanctuary for protection. A case has been registered against them and investigation has been started.