GURUGRAM: An MCG team was attacked by a mob in Badshapur village on Saturday when they had gone there to catch stray cattle near the community centre.According to the officials, assistant sanitation inspector Bhupender Singh was heading the team that had six other employees.“We were near the community centre in the village and had picked up a few cattle when around five youths reached there on three two-wheelers and attacked us with sticks and stones. They were soon joined by another 7 to 8 men,” Singh said.The accused allegedly threatened the MCG officials and told them to stay away from the village. “There were several complaints registered regarding the menace created by stray cattle in Badshapur. A team was constituted to address the issue. We were performing our duty when the mob attacked us,” Singh told the police in the complaint.A case was registered against the accused under sections 148 (rioting), 149 (unlawful assembly), 332 (voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his duty), 353 (whoever assaults or uses criminal force to stop public servant from performing his duty), 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC.In November 2017, chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar had written to his counterparts in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Punjab, requesting them to launch a Haryana-like programme (rehabilitation of stray cattle) to check the menace in their respective states. The Haryana government has also decided to conduct a third-party survey in its districts, which have already been declared stray-cattle free.

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