Name: Gauri
Color: White
Age: Four years
Photograph attached
MALEGAON: As per a report published on Outlook India, cattle owners have been asked by police in Malegaon to submit details of their cows and calves along with photographs, thanks to a ban on beef trade, enforced on March 4 by the Devendra Fadnavis-led BJP government in Maharashtra.
Police says such a move is necessary to restore law and order and check rumour mongers. The media report added that city Additional Superintendent of Police Sunil Kadasne held a meeting with cow owners on Tuesday and asked them to provide proper information on their cattle along with photographs and an undertaking to police that the animal belonged to them.
“The decision was taken to maintain law and order and prevent miscreants from spreading rumours,” said Kadasne. “Hence, those keeping cows and calves are required to register with the police along with the animals’ photograph for identification.”
The meeting was attended by Nashik Additional Collector Ramchandra Pawar, several locals and religious leaders from Malegaon town. In the first case registered under the new law, two persons were arrested last month by Malegoan police for allegedly slaughtering calves.
A case was registered against three persons and two of them – Mohammed Rashid Akhtar (36) and Abdul Ahad Mohammed Ishak alias Hamed Lendi (28) – were arrested, police said. Prior to the arrest, police had raided a shack in Azad Nagar area in Malegaon and seized two heads of slaughtered calves and 150 kg of beef.
Under the Maharashtra Animal Preservation (Amendment) Act anyone found selling beef or possessing it can be jailed upto five years and fined Rs 10,000.
Recently a video featuring a Muslim cow trader who was allegedly trading cows for his Hindu employer, went viral on social media. The video showed him tied to an electric pole and surrounded by a fundamentalist mob which is thrashing him and inciting him to utter “Jai Shri Ram”.
