Report by Yogish D
Team Mangalorean Kundapur

Kundapur: Police based on a tip, raided a illegal cow slaughtering make shift tent/hut in the forest at Gulvadi, in Karkunge Grama Panchayath area on 21 July 2012.

Police raided the spot in the forest located behind the house of Hajira. A makeshift tent was erected for protection  from rain. When the police reached the spot two cows had already been slaughtered and preparations were going on for slaughtering the third. It is learnt that meat was being sold at the spot and the activities were going on for sometime now.

The accused local resident Siraj and another two from Kandlur have fled from the scene. Police have recovered about 35 kgs of slaughtered meat, one calf, TVS Apache Bike, two knives, one weighing scale, two weighing stones of 1 kg each, and a Nokia Mobile phone.

A case has been registered in the Kundapur police station and investigation is on.