Overview

• Police say locals set a truck ablaze after stopping it near the Sri Siddeshwar temple in Ainapur on the night of September 22.
• The vehicle was reportedly traveling from Kudachi to Hyderabad, and locals and police accounts state that beef was found during an inspection.
• Fire crews from the Belagavi Fire Department and Ugar Sugar Factory arrived after the truck was already gutted, then extinguished the blaze.
• Two FIRs were registered, with three arrests under cattle-slaughter and animal-cruelty laws and six under arson and robbery provisions.
• The main accused in the cattle-related case was detained in Kalaburagi on the morning of September 23 as investigations continue.