Sitting outside his house, 5-year-old gored by bull
A 5-year-old boy died in Bharapur after being gored by a stray bull, police said Wednesday. The minor was sitting outside his house when he was gored by the bull that had been fighting another stray bull.
Police said Kunal Jatav, son of daily-wage labourer, Jugal Kishor Jatav, was rushed to Raj Bahadur Memorial Hospital in Bharatpur. The doctors there referred him to Jaipur. He died on way to Jaipur.
After the death, the locals staged a protest and refused to accept the body, accusing the civic body of apathy in handling the stray cattle menace. The family agreed to get the postmortem done on Wednesday only after Mayor Shiv Singh Bhont assured them of compensation.
The Bharatpur municipal corporation Wednesday held an emergency meeting to discuss stray cattle menace.
Civic body’s commissioner Shiv Charan Meena said they were pained by the incidents. “The number of stray bovines has been rising in city as people from nearby villages abandon their cattle here. We started a transit
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camp to catch the stray bovines but cow shelters refused to accept them,” he said.
Meena said the civic body has procured 12 hectare land to set up a cattle shelter in Ikran village. “The cattle shelter will come up at a cost of Rs 1.40 crore,” he added.
Leader of the Opposition in the municipal corporation, Congress’s Indrajeet Bhura blamed the corporation for failing to catch and shift stray bovines from the city. Local administrative officials are not sensitive towards the safety of the people, he said.
Deputy mayor Indrapal Singh Pale accused the mayor and civic body commissioner of negligence. “They call meetings of board but fail to implement the proposals,” he said.
“Many people have been injured in the past few months after being hit by stray bovines but the officials have been unable to shift them,” Pale alleged.
Animal husbandry department built an animal transit camp near Numaish ground that was inaugurated by cabinet minister Kalicharan Saraf on June 15, 2017. The plan was to round up the stray bovines in city and keep them at the transit camp before shifting them to different cow shelters.
The charge to operate transit camp was given to the municipal corporation.