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₹1.40 crore seized as Odisha Police launch major ‘Goraksha’ campaign raid against interstate cattle smuggling networks

OpIndia Staff - 18 January, 2026

In a decisive crackdown, 47 Odisha Police teams raided 46 locations across Keonjhar, Bhadrak, and other districts to dismantle illegal cattle smuggling syndicates. The operation recovered significant cash, gold, and property documents. Officials confirmed that arrested kingpins face asset confiscation under the BNSS as the state intensifies its investigation into the network’s financial and interstate links.

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Jharkhand: Around 200 cattle, being smuggled from Uttar Pradesh, rescued by police in the Garhwa district on tip-off by Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang...

OpIndia Staff - 7 September, 2025

Cattle smugglers reportedly transport the cattle in large container trucks from Uttar Pradesh to Nawada village in the Garhwa district in Jharkhand.

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Ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, cattle smuggled from India largely missing in Bangladesh markets this year due to enhanced border vigilance: Reports

OpIndia Staff - 5 June, 2025

As a side-effect of heightened vigilance on India-Bangladesh border, smuggling of cattle from India to Bangladesh has also come down significantly, which increases during Eid-ul-Azha

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Madhya Pradesh: Dozens of cow carcasses discarded in Seoni post-Bakrid, remains thrown in Wainganga river, Hindus demand action

OpIndia Staff - 21 June, 2024

The remains of around 19 cows had been thrown into the river, and apart from this more than 32 cows had been slaughtered in other nearby areas, as per the report in Organiser.

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Haryana: Cattle smugglers open fire in Nuh at people trying to protect cows from slaughter, cow protector Sonu Yadav alias Sarpanch suffers bullet injury

OpIndia Staff - 15 June, 2024

According to the police, the incident unfolded when a cow protection task force received information that some cattle smugglers from Rajasthan were en route to Nuh in a pickup van.

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Assam police foils cattle smuggling attempt by arresting two smugglers Mafizuddin and Mainul Haque, rescue 6 bovines

OpIndia Staff - 5 January, 2024

The Assam police nabbed two cow smugglers Mafizuddin and Mainul Haque who were transporting the animals without the necessary paperwork or authorization

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Satara: Gorakshak attacked by smugglers with sharp knife in Phaltan for stopping truck carrying cattle illegally, 2 booked

Siddhi Somani - 22 November, 2023

Maharashtra: Gorakshak Wagheshwar Adake was brutally assaulted by a group of 'smugglers' who were illegally transporting cattle for slaughter

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Uttar Pradesh: Faheem, Saleem, Yusuf, and Islam arrested for cattle smuggling, all 4 injured in police encounter while trying to escape

OpIndia Staff - 5 October, 2023

The police received a tip regarding the presence of cow smugglers in the Swar region of the city. The police reached the spot to see that the accused had tied a bull to a rope and were taking it somewhere illegally.

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Cattle smuggling case: Delhi court extends judicial custody of TMC’s Anubrata Mondal till May 4

ANI - 1 May, 2023

A close aide of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Anubrata was arrested by the CBI in connection with the cattle smuggling case in July last year.

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