By way of PTI
HOSHIARPUR: The 2 primary accused within the contemporary livestock slaughtering incident right here were arrested, police mentioned on Friday.
Carcasses of a minimum of 19 livestock had been discovered at an deserted position close to a railway observe with regards to 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 those recent arrests, the choice of other people nabbed through the police in reference to the incident has risen to ten.
Nimbale mentioned the FIR within the case has been registered through the Executive Railway Police in Jalandhar for the reason that house of the crime falls beneath its jurisdiction.
Because the incident got here to mild, Leader Minister Bhagwant Mann, who was once but to take the oath then, had condemned the incident and requested the Director-Basic of Police to get an intensive probe carried out.
The police had arrested seven of the accused, together with two girls, inside 36 hours of the incidence of the crime.
Someone else was once arrested later.
Right through the investigation, Irshad Khan emerged as the primary accused within the case and the police raided quite a lot of puts in Gurdaspur and Khanna in Punjab.
Then again, he was once later arrested from Kaliyar Shareef in Uttar Pradesh.
His wondering resulted in the arrest of Fariad Khan, Nimbale said in a press unencumber.
The SSP mentioned the entire accused had been serious about livestock smuggling.
They purchased cows and different livestock from one Satpal, alias Pappi, a resident of Kotli Sheikhan village.
Satpal is an accused in different equivalent instances at quite a lot of police stations in Jalandhar and Hoshiarpur districts, Nimbale mentioned.
Irshad Khan additionally faces a case of livestock smuggling in Rajasthan’s Hanumangarh police station, the officer mentioned.
In 2017, Khan and his father Nawab Khan had been booked for alleged livestock slaughter and working an unlawful slaughterhouse in Punjab’s Nihal Singh Wala village.
They used to allegedly smuggle livestock from Malerkotla, Ludhiana, Khanna, Gurdaspur and Jalandhar, Nimbale mentioned.
The SSP mentioned the crowd used to allegedly promote the beef to a dealer in Uttar Pradesh.
They have got received two days of remand of the entire accused and their additional interrogation is underway.