100 cows slaughtered in Mathura district

NEW DELHI, MAY 25.

About 100 cows have been slaughtered, and their heads and blood- soaked entrails put out in the open near Garhi Barvari village in Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh, according to the Animal Welfare Board of India Chairman, Mr. Justice Guman Lal Lodha.

Mr. Justice Lodha, who visited the village situated on the border of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan yesterday, said today that he saw heads and hoofs of about 100 cows on a stretch of land on the U.P. side of the border, while their blood-soaked intestines and pieces of flesh on an adjacent field on the Haryana side.

Mr. Justice Lodha said preliminary enquiries showed that the cows were brought from Bharatput district of Rajasthan and slaughterd in Garhi Barvari village and the neighbouring Nanhera village of Gurgaon district in Haryana.

The situation in the area was tense and it could lead to a communal riot if immediate administrative measures were not taken, he said.

- UNI

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