A crowd of no less than 50 individuals captured five trucks close to Rajasthan's Barmer late on Sunday, assaulting drivers and endeavoring to set fire to the vehicles conveying cow obtained by Tamil Nadu under a venture to protect cows.
Rajasthan is one of a few states where vigilante bunches guaranteeing to be working for the security of cows have assaulted individuals shipping steers, frequently denouncing the creatures were being taken for butcher. On April 1, cows broker Pehlu Khan was ambushed by comparable vigilantes, who left him with wounds that guaranteed his life two days after the fact.
Sunday's assault on the National Highway-15 in Barmer prompted the capture of four individuals and the suspension of the seven cops from the nearby station for "not considering the matter important and arriving late at the scene".
"We have named 50 individuals in the FIR and have captured four of them for brutality, harm to open property and for impeding government authorities from releasing of obligation," said Barmer director of police Gagandeep Singla said.
The aggressors charged the bovines were being taken illicitly when they ceased the trucks and assaulted the drivers. At the point when police achieved the recognize, the crowd raised trademarks and assaulted them with stones.
The Barmer SP said the lorries were procured by the Tamil Nadu government, and the drivers had legitimate reports from the Jaisalmer creature farming office and sub-divisional justice (SDM) for transport outside the state.
Sources said the steers were acquired under a program called the Rashtriya Gokul Mission, started by the BJP government at the Center to secure cow species. The program stores buy of cows by governments to for rearing with neighborhood cows, and police authorities said Tamil Nadu had spent Rs 25 lakh for the 50 bovines captured in Barmer.
The TN government employed the lorries for Rs 1.25 lakh each and had surrendered drivers Rs 60,000 front, an officer included.
The captured suspects were recognized as Chaina Ram, Kamlesh Kumar, Vikaram Kumar and Jaswant Singh.
Tamil Nadu creature farming office authorities achieved Barmer on Monday morning when they learnt about the assault. They were in Jaisalmer from where the steers was secured.