After long chase, J&K based cattle smuggler held in C’garh

CHANDIGARH: A day after a car allegedly tried to run over police personnel in Pathankot, it has emerged that the occupants of the vehicle were cattle smugglers.
One of the five accused, identified as Hussain, surrendered before police today and gave details following which it emerged that they were cattle smugglers. He was later put under arrest, Pathankot police said.
During preliminary investigation, it was found that the occupants had panicked on being stopped by police at a check barrier. They abandoned the car at a village in Pathankot yesterday and escaped, a police official said.
The accused were allegedly involved in the illegal trade for the last two years, the official said, adding a hunt is on to nab the other accused, all of whom hail from Jammu and Kashmir. Yesterday morning, the patrol party of Pathankot police had tried to stop the silver-coloured Maruti Alto K-10, bearing Jammu and Kashmir registration number, at a check barrier in Sujanpur, Pathankot SSP, Nilambari Jagdalay Vijay had said. The occupants tried to run over the policemen and escaped. Nothing suspicious was found from the car which was later abandoned by its occupants, police had said.
Notably, Pathankot remains on high alert after last year's terror attack.
Terrorists had sneaked in from across the border and attacked the
Pathankot air base on the intervening night of January 1-2 last year,
while Dinanagar in adjoining Gurdaspur district was targeted by
terrorists on July 27, 2015.
The Pathankot terror attack had claimed the lives of seven security
personnel, while four terrorists were killed in the incident.
Three heavily-armed terrorists wearing Army fatigues had stormed a
police station in Dinanagar town in Gurdaspur district killing seven
persons, including a Superintendent of Police, before they were gunned
down during a day-long operation.