By PTI
HOSHIARPUR: The two fundamental accused within the current cattle slaughtering incident right here have been arrested, police mentioned on Friday.
Carcasses of a minimum of 19 cattle have been discovered at an deserted place close to a railway observe near Jhans village, six days in the past.
Senior Superintendent of Police, Hoshiarpur, Dhruman H Nimbale named the arrested individuals as Irshad Khan and Fariad Khan.
With these contemporary arrests, the variety of individuals nabbed by the police in reference to the incident has risen to 10.
Nimbale mentioned the FIR within the case has been registered by the Government Railway Police in Jalandhar because the space of the crime falls beneath its jurisdiction.
As the incident got here to gentle, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, who was but to take the oath then, had condemned the incident and requested the Director-General of Police to get an intensive probe carried out.
The police had arrested seven of the accused, together with two ladies, inside 36 hours of the incidence of the crime.
Another particular person was arrested later.
During the investigation, Irshad Khan emerged as the principle accused within the case and the police raided numerous locations in Gurdaspur and Khanna in Punjab.
However, he was later arrested from Kaliyar Shareef in Uttar Pradesh.
His questioning led to the arrest of Fariad Khan, Nimbale said in a press launch.
The SSP mentioned all of the accused have been concerned in cattle smuggling.
They purchased cows and different cattle from one Satpal, alias Pappi, a resident of Kotli Sheikhan village.
Satpal is an accused in a number of comparable circumstances at numerous police stations in Jalandhar and Hoshiarpur districts, Nimbale mentioned.
Irshad Khan additionally faces a case of cattle smuggling in Rajasthan’s Hanumangarh police station, the officer mentioned.
In 2017, Khan and his father Nawab Khan have been booked for alleged cattle slaughter and operating an unlawful slaughterhouse in Punjab’s Nihal Singh Wala village.
They used to allegedly smuggle cattle from Malerkotla, Ludhiana, Khanna, Gurdaspur and Jalandhar, Nimbale mentioned.
The SSP mentioned the gang used to allegedly promote the meat to a dealer in Uttar Pradesh.
They have obtained two days of remand of all of the accused and their additional interrogation is underway.
