Crackdown on illegal slaughtering 'priority', UP Chief Secy tells officials
March 24, 2017  18:21
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The names of cattle smugglers will be listed in village crime notebooks, intelligence gathered on their activities and a vigil maintained on Uttar Pradesh's borders, according to the latest directive of the Aditya Nath Yogi government to district officials.


In a letter issued on Friday, UP chief secretary Rahul Bhatnagar has directed District Magistrates and Senior Superintendents of Police to check illegal slaughtering and transportation of cattle as it a "government priority".


This means that other important issues like waiving off loans for small farmers, abundant electricity, new hospitals and universities, free school education for girls, jailing criminals who are absconding, have all be put on the backburner.

A massive drive against illegal slaughterhouses is already on in Uttar Pradesh where over 50 persons had been arrested and 27 FIRs were registered for such offences till yesterday. In the letter, Bhatnagar said that slaughter houses in all 75 districts should be inspected and strict action should be taken wherever needed.

Local intelligence should be used for this purpose, the states top bureaucrat said in his letter.
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