Jammu, Feb 6:
Two attempts to smuggle bovines to the Kashmir Valley were foiled by the police and 22 bovines were rescued in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district on Wednesday, police said. A team from the Ghagwal police station intercepted a truck coming from Kathua at a check-post in Tapyal area of the district and rescued 17 cattle, police said, adding the vehicle was also seized. The cattle were shifted to a safer place, they added. In a similar incident, five bovines were rescued from a vehicle in Ghagwal area of the Samba district, police said. Two separate cases have been registered in this matter and investigation is on, police official said.