ISLAMABAD – A labourer is accused of raping five cows at a cattle shelterin India after horrified staff saw the surveillance footage of the incident.
The man was arrested after cattle shelter volunteers claimed they saw himcommitting the perverted acts, in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, writes theMirror.
Shelter workers lay in wait for the offender to return to the scene of hisperverted offences after seeing a number of cows being sexually assaulted.They “brutally thrashed him” before summoning the police, accordingto local reports.
The perpetrator, Raj Kumar, 27, is being held on animal cruelty charges,said police in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh.
The man claimed he was drunk at the time and could not remember anythingfollowing the shocking incident in India, where cows are considered sacred.
Police inspector Jagdish Upadhyay said: “The accused was identified as RajKumar who works as a contractual labourer.”
“He was under the influence of alcohol when he was brought to the policestation.”
Shelter volunteers claim they saw Kumar having “unnatural sex” with fivecows while scanning CCTV installed a few days earlier.
“They came across this footage of a man involved in the act,” the inspectorsaid.
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“Since then, volunteers have started keeping a vigil.”
Kumar allegedly sexually abused cows at the Karatliya Baba Ashram shelter.
A distraught local priest, Ram Das, said: “CCTV footage shows the man doingdastardly acts with cows one by one”.
“We have caught him and brought to the police station.”
Gaushalas, as cattle shelters are called in India, is set up to protect theanimals due to their religious significance in Hinduism.
In a similarly abusive incident last July, eight men sparked outragefor gang-raping a pregnant goat in Mewat in the northern state of Haryana.-Sputnik
