Overview
- Videos that circulated on social media over the weekend showed more than 300 cattle carcasses exposed at a municipal dumping yard near Ramgarh Road in Jaisalmer, prompting local outrage.
- The Jaisalmer Municipal Council issued a show‑cause notice to the contracted disposer, identified as Goparam of Barmer, and has cancelled the 2025–26 bone/carcass contract while blacklisting the contractor and confiscating the security deposit.
- Council sanitation teams deployed JCB excavators to dig pits and begin burying the carcasses to limit environmental contamination and reduce foul odour affecting nearby residents.
- District Collector Anupama Jorwal has sought a formal factual report on the incident and municipal officials warned that an unsatisfactory explanation could prompt legal action or further administrative probes.
- The case has reignited questions about how short‑term municipal contracts, gaushala care and stray‑cattle management operate in Rajasthan and what safeguards exist to prevent such lapses in public health and animal welfare.