<p>The illegal transport of cattle is banned and is cognisable offence. However, transporting cattle to neighbouring states is a thriving business and continues unabated in Bangarpet. On an average, every day a lorry filled with cattle is transported from Bangarpet.<br /><br />The illegal transport of cattle thrives as some of the officers are hand in glow with the culprits. The buck, sadly, does not stop here. <br /><br />The cattle rearers are to be blamed equally or may be held solemnly responsible for the smooth and rampant transport of cattle. It is a classic case of protecters becoming perpetraters.<br /><br />The rearers most of whom are farmers sell the cow when they grow old and yield very few litres. The cows, feeble and hapless, remain mute spectors when their owners sell them of to the middlemen or butchers who come scouting particularly for these animals, for as trivial as few hundred rupees. <br /><br />Farmers, who would have reaped good profit from the animals in the form of milk, calf and dung in their prime, don’t hesitate to sell them when cows or cattle grow old as find the cost of their fodder or treatment expensive. <br /><br />The cows which are believed to house crores of gods in their body finally become a victim of human’s greed and hunger. <br /><br />Interestingly, male calves share the same fate, but much earlier, as rearers are only interesed in rearing female calves.<br /><br />As the illegal tranport is punishable offence under law, the butchers or middlemen have found many loopholes to surpass the law. <br /><br />The butchers visit every village and buy old and non-milching cows. They are then loaded to trucks or lorries. A man from a village is also taken along by the butchers or middlemen who shields the entire process by saying that the animals were being transported for rearing when questioned by authorities concerned. <br /><br />As some of the officers and rearers are hand in glove with butchers, not a single incident of illegal transport of cattle has been reported in the taluk.<br /><br />The State drew the attention of whole nation six months ago by introducing Karnataka Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Bill, 2010 to ban cow slaughter. However, the contorversial bill is yet to be passed as some to rules is yet to be formulated leading illegal transport of the cattle.<br /><br />Apart from officialdom, even social organisations have turned a blind eye to the cruel practice.<br /></p>
<p>The illegal transport of cattle is banned and is cognisable offence. However, transporting cattle to neighbouring states is a thriving business and continues unabated in Bangarpet. On an average, every day a lorry filled with cattle is transported from Bangarpet.<br /><br />The illegal transport of cattle thrives as some of the officers are hand in glow with the culprits. The buck, sadly, does not stop here. <br /><br />The cattle rearers are to be blamed equally or may be held solemnly responsible for the smooth and rampant transport of cattle. It is a classic case of protecters becoming perpetraters.<br /><br />The rearers most of whom are farmers sell the cow when they grow old and yield very few litres. The cows, feeble and hapless, remain mute spectors when their owners sell them of to the middlemen or butchers who come scouting particularly for these animals, for as trivial as few hundred rupees. <br /><br />Farmers, who would have reaped good profit from the animals in the form of milk, calf and dung in their prime, don’t hesitate to sell them when cows or cattle grow old as find the cost of their fodder or treatment expensive. <br /><br />The cows which are believed to house crores of gods in their body finally become a victim of human’s greed and hunger. <br /><br />Interestingly, male calves share the same fate, but much earlier, as rearers are only interesed in rearing female calves.<br /><br />As the illegal tranport is punishable offence under law, the butchers or middlemen have found many loopholes to surpass the law. <br /><br />The butchers visit every village and buy old and non-milching cows. They are then loaded to trucks or lorries. A man from a village is also taken along by the butchers or middlemen who shields the entire process by saying that the animals were being transported for rearing when questioned by authorities concerned. <br /><br />As some of the officers and rearers are hand in glove with butchers, not a single incident of illegal transport of cattle has been reported in the taluk.<br /><br />The State drew the attention of whole nation six months ago by introducing Karnataka Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Bill, 2010 to ban cow slaughter. However, the contorversial bill is yet to be passed as some to rules is yet to be formulated leading illegal transport of the cattle.<br /><br />Apart from officialdom, even social organisations have turned a blind eye to the cruel practice.<br /></p>
