FIR against MLA, BJP councillors for protest over cattle seizure in Jaipur

JAIPUR: The Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC) filed an FIR against MLA Kalicharan Saraf and BJP councillors who protested over cattle seizure of dairy owners around Jaipuria hospital in Malviya Nagar.
On Monday, JMC officials went to Gurjar colony near the hospital and seized around 16 cattle of dairy owners, who have been running dairies in the city against the orders of the high court.

The dairy owners protested against the move.Later, Saraf and other BJP councillor demanding the release of the cattle joined the protest. Around 9pm on Monday, an FIR was filed by the JMC against all the protesters after which the protest was called off.
The Rajasthan High Court had passed a judgment a decade back ordering the municipality to shift the dairies running in the city or residential areas to the outskirts.
JMC cannot release cattle: Mayor Lahta
Talking to TOI, JMC mayor Vishnu Lahta said that the civic body cannot release the cattle and it has to be done through the procedure of the court.
“A petition has to be filed in the high court, which will decide the course of action. Meanwhile, the owners will be charged a fine of Rs 5,000 for each cattle seized and Rs 100 per day for fodder. We were just following the orders of the high court and these leaders came in between just to hamper the execution of the court order,” said Lahta.
As per the norms, if owners have more than four animals it is considered to be a dairy. For shifting the dairies, land has been allotted to the owners at three places in Jaipur but most of them either did not move or sold their land and shifted back to the city.