Guwahati: More than four dozen cattle were seized from traffickers’ hands by police in Assam’s Nagaon district in the wee hours of Thursday.
The police recovered 50 livestock in three separate raids at three different places.
At around 4.45 am on Thursday, police raided a cattle smuggling operation at Borpeta NLG Brickfield. They detained one container truck and seized 23 cattle.
“Acting on source information on 27.10.2022 at around 2 am, SI Pawan Kalita, O/C, Samaguri PS, and staff detained one 12 wheeler truck bearing Reg. No. AS 01 FC 7912 along with a Tata DI vehicle bearing Reg. No. AS 02 E 7302 at Baziagaon,” Nagaon Police tweeted.
According to a subsequent tweet from Nagaon Police, the district nabbed one Saiful Islam in the most recent incident for smuggling of four cow heads.
