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Haryana govt forms 4-member committee to probe death of 44 cows in Karnal
Karnal divisional commissioner is the chairperson of the committee while Gau Seva Aayog vice-chairman Puran Mal Yadav, animal husbandry & dairying department deputy director Sukhdev Rathee and a nominee of Karnal police chief are its members.
Faced with criticism over the mysterious death of 44 cows and a bull in a municipal corporation (MC)-run gaushala (cow-shelter) at Karnal, the Haryana government has constituted a committee to probe the matter.
The committee will be headed by Karnal divisional commissioner Saket Kumar while Haryana Gau Sewa Ayog vice-chairman Puranmal Yadav, animal husbandry and dairying department
deputy director Sukhdev Rathee and a representative of Karnal superintendent of police will be members of the committee.
The committee will submit its report in four days, following which further action will be taken.
On the morning of January 27, at least 45 cows were found dead while 10 were ill at the MC-run gaushala in Phoonsgarh village of Karnal district.
The opposition leaders had slammed BJP’s Karnal Mayor and state government for the “poor facilities” at the gaushala.
A local-level inquiry was carried out on the orders of the Karnal deputy commissioner and viscera samples were also collected and sent to the forensic science laboratory in Madhuban, but no conclusion was reached.
Gaushala staff suspect the cows had eaten poisonous fodder.
A case under Section 429 (commits mischief by killing, poisoning, maiming or rendering useless, any elephant, camel, horse, mule, buffalo, bull, cow or ox) of the Indian Penal Code had been registered against the a commission agent of the fodder mandi.
Karnal superintendent of police Ganga Ram Punia said that the investigation is going on as they were waiting for the lab reports to find out the cause of death. Karnal MC commissioner Ajay Tomar said police is investigating the case as per the statements of the staff.
