'Holy' cows on sale online: Know how cattle traders seek greener pastures

Those selling cattle are coming up with ingenious ways to bypass Centre's recent directive

Crippled by Narendra Modi government's restrictions on sale of cattle, farmers and livestock traders have found a solution to their woes - e-commerce. After an increase in the incidents where cattle owners were beaten or worse lynched by self-proclaimed cow vigilantes, few people have started buying and selling cattle online. Hundreds of cows and buffalos are on sale on sites like OLX and Quikr.

Few days ago, environment ministry came up with rules to curb the trading of cattle for the purpose of slaughtering from market places and said that cattle can only be traded from farms. The rules are