In yet another incident of neglect in cow shelters, over 200 cows died in two days due to starvation and lack of proper care in a Gaushala in Chattisgarh's Rajpur, as villagers claimed on Friday. The Gaushala is run by BJP leader Harish Verma, who is also the vice president of Jamul Nagar Nigam. He has been running the shelter for the last seven years. However, Verma dusted off the allegations stating that he had been seeking financial support for the shelter from the state government for the past two years but nothing worked out. Rajpur's Sarpanch Pati Sevaram Sahu alleged that he found many trenches were being dug to bury the dead cows lying around, which made them suspicious.

Source: India Today August 19, 2017 06:45 UTC