Mangalore : Suratkal cops have arrested three inter district cattle thieves who were wanted in connection with the recent cattle theft cases reported from Suratkal police station limits.

The arrested namely Sarfaraz alias Choppu (25) from Jokatte, Nisar (22) and Sheikh alias Umar Farooq (27) have reportedly admitted that  they had stolen cattle from houses of Diwaker Shetty of Kuttettur and Baby of Krishnapur.

 It is learnt  they used to travel in a Scorpio vehicle modified to smuggle cattle and used to steal cattle found on the road and even identify cattle sheds from where they used to steal cattle during night time.

It is said one Haneef alias Gandha Haneef of Kundapur was the main person behind this racket and it was he who had provided three accused with the Scorpio vehicle.

They have revealed that there were ten groups of four to five persons which was involved in cattle theft and that the groups have stolen over 2000 cows during the past  two years in DK, Shimoga, Chikmagalur and Hassan.

The accused informed during interrogation that they had support of political leadership.

The three were produced before the court which has remanded  them to judicial custody till October 3.