SAMBA POLICE FOILED TWO BOVINE SMUGGLING ATTEMPTS, RESCUED 28 BOVINES

91 BOVINE SMUGGLERS ARRESTED IN NINE & HALF MONTHS : SSP SAMBA BENAM TOSH

Samba, Nov 3 : Samba Police have foiled two bovine smuggling attempts, rescued twenty eight bovine animals and arrested one notorious bovine smuggler in the jurisdiction of Police Station Ghagwal.

The arrested notorious bovine smuggler has been identified as Surjeet Kumar s/o Satpal r/o Tanda tehsil R.S Pura District Jammu. Two cases — FIR No. 100/2023 u/s 188 IPC read with sec 11 PCA Act and FIR No. 101/2023 u/s 188 IPC read with sec 11 PCA Act have been registered at PS Ghagwal and investigation is underway.

The bovine smuggler has been arrested by police team comprising of SHO Police Station Ghagwal Bharat Bhushan and Incharge Police Post Rajpura Hardev Singh under the supervision of DySP Garu Ram and Additional SP Samba Surinder Choudhary.

On the directions of Senior Superintendent of Police Samba, Benam Tosh a total of ninety one (91) bovine smugglers have been arrested by Samba Police in past nine and half months after the launch of special drive, seventy three (73) FIRs have been registered against bovine smugglers, sixty two (62) vehicles used for bovine smuggling have been seized and seven hundred twelve (712) bovine animals have been rescued in Samba district.