NAWALPARASI, OCT 31 - Seventy-one cows including calves were withheld while being smuggled away to Bihar in India from a village in the Nepalese border.
Dinesh Chandra Teli a local through phone informed that these bovines had been confiscated by a police patrol team yesterday while they were being deported to Bihar through the entry point of Athalaiya bridge at Pratapur VDC-8.
However, the persons involved in the smuggling racket managed to flee away, informed the police. It is learnt that these were the Indian bovines, which were brought from Indian State of Uttar Pradesh, and that they were actually being smuggled away to Bihar state in India via the route in Nepal. According to the Indian law concerning these two Indian States, cattle cannot be transported to Bihar from Uttar Pradesh.
The police informed that such cattle are being transported to cities such as Calcutta and Darjeeling for their meat, which is in high demand there.
According to Dhaniya Mahato a local there, ever since the six police posts along this border region were shifted for security reasons, such bovine smuggling incidences have gone up. All these illegally transported cows have been detained at the Bhairahawa Custom Office at present under the vigil of the employees there.Posted on: 2003-10-30 08:33

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