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Strict enactment would beryllium taken against anyone attempting to disturb bid oregon communal harmony during the forthcoming Bakrid festival, said C.V. Anand, Telangana DGP, connected Wednesday arsenic constabulary intensified information and surveillance measures crossed the State.
Chairing a video league with Police Commissioners and Superintendents of Police from each districts, the DGP reviewed preparedness measures on with elder officials from the Municipal Administration, Animal Husbandry and Revenue departments.
The gathering was attended by Special Chief Secretary for Municipal Administration and Urban Development Jayesh Ranjan, Animal Husbandry Secretary K. Ilambarthi and different elder constabulary officials.
The DGP said constabulary officers had been instructed to strictly forestall amerciable proscription and trafficking of cattle during Bakrid, pursuing directions issued during reappraisal meetings chaired by the Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister.
Describing Bakrid arsenic a delicate festival from a instrumentality and bid perspective, helium stressed the request for heightened vigilance to forestall communal hostility oregon clashes. Referring to caller incidents of amerciable cattle transportation, helium said the video league was organised to guarantee effectual implementation of the Standard Operating Procedures.
Police officials were directed to strictly enforce the Telangana Cow Slaughter Act, 1977, the Transport of Animals Rules, 1978, and the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960. The DGP warned that stringent ineligible enactment would beryllium initiated against those violating cattle proscription rules.
According to the police, 52 inter-state cheque posts person been established on the borders with Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, successful summation to 203 cheque posts acceptable up crossed Telangana to curb amerciable cattle smuggling.
Officials were instructed to intensify conveyance checks successful suspicious areas and support surveillance implicit cattle fairs apt to beryllium organised during the adjacent fortnight. Police were besides directed to thoroughly verify ‘Fit for Transport’ and ‘Fit for Slaughter’ certificates related to cattle proscription astatine each cheque posts until the completion of the festival.
He advised members of Qureshi associations and cattle extortion groups against resorting to roadworthy blockades oregon confrontations based simply connected suspicion regarding cattle transportation. He said transgression cases would beryllium registered against violators, and rowdy sheets oregon fishy sheets would beryllium opened wherever necessary.
Heads of commissionerates and districts were instructed to clasp abstracted coordination meetings with representatives of some groups to forestall misunderstandings and debar hostility astatine the section level.
Officials were directed to signifier peculiar WhatsApp groups astatine territory and tract levels for real-time connection and accusation sharing.
Police were further instructed to guarantee due arrangements for seized cattle, including shelters, fodder and h2o facilities. The authoritative besides directed officials to support strict vigil connected societal media platforms and warned that those posting provocative oregon misleading contented would beryllium identified and dealt with arsenic per law.
Municipal Administration and Urban Development officials said municipal authorities had been placed connected alert up of the festival, portion the Animal Husbandry Department stated that veterinary doctors would stay disposable circular the timepiece to contented certificates required for cattle transportation.
