Kundapur: Police tried to nab few persons in an illegal cattle trafficking racket, during this one officer was badly hurt while trying to arrest the culprits. The injured policeman, Prashanth Naganna, was admitted to a private hospital here.

The police mentioned that after receiving information on the illegal cattle trafficking racket of cows being illegally transported from the direction of Gulvady via Basrur in the taluk, the police plot a plan to nab the culprits and to intercept the vehicle carrying cattle over the Gulvady bridge. But the accused succeeded in escaping from being intercepted by the police by a whisker and moved towards Kandlur via Basrur. The police personnel who were in the vehicle, conveyed information to the police station and continued the chase.

They had asked other staff at the police station to set up barricades in front of the rural police station to block the vehicle from proceeding further.

The Police had also erected barricades in front of the police station and awaited arrival of the vehicle. But the vehicle which reached the spot, rammed over the barricades and passed through them. The broken barricades hit Police personnel and injured Prashanth.

The vehicle was later found from near the Gulvady bridge. Out of 25 cattle stuffed inside the vehicle, 11 were found dead. A case about the incident was registered in Kandlur police station.