Border guards intercept them periodically, but cattle smugglers keep devising ingenuous techniques to send cows and bulls to Bangladesh and feed the beef and leather industry there. India shares a 4,096km border with Bangladesh and there are multiple points along this boundary – primarily in West Bengal and Assam – where cattle smugglers operate, often after dark. This made the cattle smugglers switch to other strategies. A popular method, applied mainly by agents in Bangladesh where cattle trade is legal, is a crane made of bamboo. A police informer had filmed a consignment being shipped this way on the Kaljani river along the Assam-West Bengal border.

Source: Hindustan Times July 14, 2017 12:14 UTC