Over 60 cows and calves contain been chanced on needless at Chandigarh Municipal Company’s ideally suited cow shed at Makhan Majra in Raipur Kalan on Wednesday morning, triggering frequent outrage and prompting the UT administration to pronounce a magisterial inquiry.
Taking strict explain of the incident, MC furthermore suspended medical officer health (MOH) Dr Inderdeep Kaur and veterinary physician Dr Ravinder Dhaliwal, to blame for the care of cattle at the cowshed.
Deputy commissioner Nishant Yadav, MC commissioner Amit Kumar and mayor Harpreet Kaur Babla rushed to the positioning to evaluate the tell. Surprising visuals of carcasses strewn across the cowshed circulated unexpectedly on social media, elevating crucial concerns over animal welfare and administrative negligence.
Preliminary findings level to a prolonged breakdown of the Animal Carcass Incinerator Plant positioned shut to the cowshed. The incinerator, historical for cremating needless cattle, had reportedly been out of pronounce for a lot of days, leading to an alarming pile-up of carcasses. No matter the tell, no successfully timed steps contain been taken to repair the flexibility.
Officers mentioned the incinerator caters no longer ideally suited to the Makhan Majra cowshed but furthermore receives needless cattle from surrounding villages.
Mayor Harpreet Kaur Babla mentioned the veterinary physician in fee had been suspended and assured strict action against all others chanced on responsible of negligence.
The Makhan Majra cowshed, the ideally suited in the town with a means of shut to 1,000 cattle, used to be inaugurated by Union defence minister Rajnath Singh in Can even 2023.
Probe document sought within per week
The UT administration appointed additional district Justice of the Peace Amandeep Singh Bhatti because the inquiry officer to conduct a entire magisterial probe into the conditions leading to the deaths.
SDM (East) Khushpreet Kaur, UT animal husbandry director Naveen and the plight’s sub-divisional police officer contain been deputed to reduction the inquiry officer.
As per respectable orders, the inquiry officer will submit a document within per week, after inspecting the instantaneous and underlying causes of the deaths, identifying acts of commission or omission by cowshed administration and public servants to blame for oversight, and scrutinising related data, along with autopsy experiences and viscera sample outcomes. The probe will furthermore suggest systemic enhancements and preventive measures to avert such incidents in future.
Political furore erupts
The incident sparked inviting political reactions across the town. Native MP Manish Tewari took to X, annoying termination of the officials to blame. “I originate hope that the Hon’ble governor of Punjab & the administrator of Chandigarh @Gulab_kataria ji shall be certain that that justice is executed to those wretched and equal inhabitants of planet earth for no longer getting the dignity of final rites that they deserved,” he wrote.
Chandigarh Congress president HS Lucky, along with deputy mayor Taruna Mehta, councillor Sachin Galav and other party leaders, visited the positioning and demanded instantaneous and strict action against these to blame for what they termed grave negligence.
AAP leaders and volunteers furthermore reached the cowshed, elevating slogans against the BJP mayor and the BJP-dominated UT administration and MC. Congress councillor Sachin Galav posted a video calling the incident a vital embarrassment for Chandigarh and sought a thorough probe. Chandigarh AAP president Vijaypal Singh furthermore expressed real outrage over the deaths.
Not a vital
Right here’s no longer the principal time cattle deaths contain been reported at city cowsheds. In February 2025, eight cattle, along with a cow and seven oxen, had died at the Maloya cowshed after coming enthusiastic with an iron pole that had change into electrically charged.
