Owner of menacing stray cattle gets two-year imprisonment

Sabarmati: The sessions court sentenced a cattle owner with two-year imprisonment for releasing his cattle on road in a life-threatening way for the public and giving death threats and speaking abusive words to a sanitary inspector of Amdavad Municipal Corporation (AMC).

Additional Sessions Judge Saranga V Vyas ruled that the accused cattle owner Prakash Jayrambhai Desai had released cattle he owned in a way that was life-threatening for others. He spoke abusive words to the sanitary inspector in public and gave death threats.

The special public prosecutor KB Kanjiya argued that the accused cattle owner released his cattle on a public road with traffic near Shantinagar naka outside Shahpur darwaja in Ahmedabad city on 27th July 2019 which was life-threatening for people. He released his cows and calves to stray within AMC boundary despite knowing that the cattle may cause severe injury or death by striking with the drivers and pedestrians on the road. He breached the notification of AMC commissioner and police commissioner. DeshGujarat