Monu Manesar’s gang chases cattle transporters, releases video
In the latest incident, police arrested two cow smugglers with help from vigilantes and rescued 35 cows and bulls from a truck on GurugramMumbai expressway
GURUGRAM: Cow vigilantes continue to be in business despite police orders that such groups cannot take the law into their own hands and urging them to tip off authorities in case they spot any suspicious activity.
In the latest incident on Wednesday, police arrested two cow smugglers with help from vigilantes and rescued 35 cows and bulls from a truck on the Gurugram-Mumbai expressway near Bhondsi that was on its way to a slaughter house in Nuh, officers said.
Under new orders by Haryana police, cow vigilantes are not allowed to chase or intercept any vehicles but despite that, police admit, these groups routinely engage in high-speed chases.
Police said they received a tipoff from cow vigilantes in the wee hours on Wednesday that a truck loaded with cows was on way to a slaughter house in Nuh. Teams of cow vigilantes, police and the local cow protection unit chased the truck for 20km and caught hold of two suspects. Police said the chase that began from Rajiv Chowk in Gurugram ended after crossing Ghmaroj toll plaza. The suspects had brought cows and bulls from Noida and were taking them to slaughter, police said. The complainant in the case said that they were associated with Mohit Yadav, better known as Monu Manesar, a prominent cow vigilante in Haryana. Manesar’s close associate, Rinku Saini, has been arrested in the murder of two Muslim men, Junaid and Nasir from Rajasthan’s Bharatpur, who were found charred to death in Bhiwani in February. Manesar was not named in the case FIR.