Andhra Pradesh police intensify raids against cockfights as Sankranti nears
The HinduThe Andhra Pradesh police have tightened the vigil on cockfights, the banned traditional sport during the Sankranti, as the festival is nearing. Bound-over offenders Instructions have been issued to the police officers to intensify raids to check the unlawful activities, Eluru Range Deputy Inspector General G.V.G. Ashok Kumar told The Hindu on December 17 “The police, in association with the officers of other enforcement departments, will conduct awareness programmes in villages against cockfights,” the DIG said. West Godavari Superintendent of Police U. Ravi Prakash said that instructions had been issued to the DSPs, CIs and the SIs to keep a strict vigil on cockfight organisers, knife manufacturers and the habitual offenders. “We are maintaining a strict vigil at Pulapalli, Vissakoderu, Pedapulipaka, Gudivada, Bhimavaram, Kalla, Korukallu, Undi, Denduluru, Mudinepalli, Kalidindi, Kaikalur, Palakol, Dindi, Razole and other places where cockfights were organised earlier,” a police officer said.
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