Cattle thieves escape after breaking toll plaza barrier

In a shocking display of lawlessness, a group of armed cattle thieves escaped after stealing livestock from a farmer in Jajja Kalan village under the Goraya police station. The broke through a toll plaza barrier while fleeing the spot. The entire act was caught in the CCTV camera footage.

According to the victim farmer, Jaswinder Singh, the incident occurred late at night when five masked men, armed with sharp weapons, arrived in a white vehicle and stormed his farm. The attackers held him hostage at knifepoint, threatened to kill him, and loaded three buffaloes and one ox onto their vehicle before fleeing from the farm.

Alerted by barking dogs, Jaswinder attempted to intervene, but was quickly overpowered. “They surrounded me from all sides and said they would kill me if I raised an alarm,” he said. He further said this was the second theft at his property within days. Jaswinder said he had already submitted a written complaint to the Goraya police in this regard.

Meanwhile, after spotting the suspicious vehicle, villagers pursued thieves, but the gang managed to escape after forcefully breaking through a nearby toll plaza barrier, an act captured in the surveillance cameras. The stolen livestock is estimated to be worth Rs 4 to 5 lakh.

Despite repeated complaints, no FIR was registered in this connection. The police only confirmed that an investigation into the matter was underway.