Gujarat stray cattle: India man jailed for letting cows roam streets

A tribunal successful the occidental Indian authorities of Gujarat has handed a six-month jailhouse condemnation to a antheral for letting his cattle stray connected the streets.

Prakash Jairam Desai was recovered blameworthy of letting them escaped and endangering people's lives.

Gujarat is among respective Indian states facing an expanding occupation of stray cattle connected its streets.

The tribunal said the punishment was imposed to service justness since specified offences are connected the rise.

Cows are ineffable animals for India's bulk Hindu community, and slaughtering them is amerciable successful 18 states, including Gujarat.

In 2017, Gujarat tightened its cattle extortion laws by notifying that those slaughtering a cattle could beryllium punished with a beingness sentence.

An unintended effect of that determination has been a ample fig of cattle roaming the streets, causing postulation snarls, attacking radical oregon landing up astatine charitable cattle shelters.

In its order, the tribunal said that due to the fact that of owners leaving stray cattle connected the roads, radical had been killed and suffered superior injuries, The Times of India reported.

Gujarat was among respective Indian states that was deed by a lumpy tegument illness outbreak, starring to cattle losses, earlier this year.

The authorities reported much than 5,800 cattle deaths portion astir 170,000 were estimated to beryllium affected by the disease.

In September, charitable trusts, that tally cattle shelters successful Gujarat, had set escaped thousands of cows successful protest against the deficiency of promised authorities aid.

Videos of cows walking done authorities buildings had gone viral, prompting the authorities to promising action.