Hynniwtrep National Youth Front (HNYF) expresses concern over cattle smuggling
Staff Correspondent
Shillong: The Hynniwtrep National Youth Front (HNYF) has expressed grave concern over the unabated movement of cattle heads towards the Indo-Bangladesh border. These cattle heads are usually meant for smuggling through the porous unfenced area of the international boundary.
Claiming of having intercepted many trucks laden with cattle, the HNYF leaders told newsmen on Wednesday that they had to take matters into their hands and seize the trucks as these do not have any official challan. HNYF general secretary F Khrmujai said, “How can these cattle heads without the official tag of the Department of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry travel such a long distance. There is a serious lapse in the entire monitoring process.” Note mentioning that movement of cattle in the hinterland is no crime till they reached the international borders. The BSF has been doing it own job by seizing the bovines meant to be smuggled.
Moreover, the HNYF leaders felt that the transportation of cattle originating from Morigaon in Assam towards the Meghalaya stretch of the international border has also cost the beef eating of the State dearly. “The bovines that should end up in the State for domestic consumption are being smuggled to Bangladesh and it is for this that the price of beef shoots up” stated the HNYF leader.