Hyderabad, Jul 22 (DHNS): At least 50 cows illegally transported from Odisha to the Bahadurpura slaughterhouse here were left to die of injury and hunger by cow protectors and complacent police.
Reports reaching here said activists of the Dondapudi Gau Rakshana Samithi blocked the truck carrying the animals at Devarapalli in West Godavari district and informed the police. Though the illegal traffickers surrendered to the police, the gau rakshaks left the onus of rescuing the 72 cows to the officers. The bovines were crammed one over the other in a truck.
Noticing the truck parked on the edge of the road, the police left the spot, abandoning the animals. Passersby informed the gaushala in Aavapadu in Nallajerla block, but 50 cows had died before rescuers could reach the spot. Rescuers shifted the 12 badly injured and dying cows to the shelter.