Belthangady: The famous Kulkunda Cattle Fair has started will all fanfare and noises on November 10 with a thousand animals on show, watched by many more thousand farmers and butchers, acting as transporters of animals bought.

The local Gram Panchayat entrusted the organizational work to a new management committee. But new forms of tension rise in recent years, as cattle purchased during the Fair go to Kerala, stuffed in inhuman ways like goods in some Lorries, to slaughter houses for meat during Id-ul-Juha.

Even if Fair takes place peacefully, low intervenes only to create fresh trouble. The field of cattle Fair turned into a bottle ground this year, when Hindus kept a watch on cows sold. Local youths teasing new reports, fights and police rush in events, at the Fair.

Law in the person of Tahsildar stepped in to arrange suitable transport for cattle and the destination was a shed and not a slaughter house.