A cow that costs Rs5,000 or Tk6,250 in India can fetch as much as ten times the money once it is smuggled into Bangladesh, reports Hindustan Times. This encourages the smugglers to take risks and come up with innovative strategies to keep the flow of cattle stable. The smugglers’ Bangladesh partners paid for this possible loss during advance payments. Many Bangladeshi cattle traders are often killed at the hand of the BSF when they go to India illegally to bring cattle. There is no exact figure on how many cattle are smuggled into the country every year but the trade is estimated to be worth around Rs5,000 crore or Tk6,250 crore annually, according to the HT report.

Source: Dhaka Tribune July 15, 2017 07:41 UTC