Revenge of the Goats

Kolkata Police, at its wits’ end trying to manage traffic in the city’s central business district—which has been held hostage over the past few days by a series of rallies—vented its ire on a 200-strong herd of goats passing through an arterial road in central Kolkata earlier this week. The goats, after having grazed at the maidan, were being shepherded down the road by five goatherds when the cops decided they were obstructing the flow of traffic and booked them. The five men and goats were taken to a police station, but, by then, the goats had become hungry.

Kolkata Police, at its wits’ end trying to manage traffic in the city’s central business district—which has been held hostage over the past few days by a series of rallies—vented its ire on a 200-strong herd of goats passing through an arterial road in central Kolkata earlier this week. The goats, after having grazed at the maidan, were being shepherded down the road by five goatherds when the cops decided they were obstructing the flow of traffic and booked them. The five men and goats were taken to a police station, but, by then, the goats had become hungry. In no time they were munching on the curtains, upholstery and important files, thus getting the cop’s goat. The men in uniform hurriedly summoned the goats’ owners and asked them to get the goats out of the police station. As for the goatherds, they spent the night in the lockup before being released on bail the next day. The episode has animal and human rights’ activists up in arms—the arrest of the goats and goatherds violated both human and animal rights, they hold.

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Jaideep Mazumdar