It was impossible to check cattle smuggling given the nature of the terrain along the 4096-km porous Indo-Bangla border and the only possible solution was to allow export of cattle, BSF Director General A K Mitra said.

"Cattle smuggling is a major problem. It is now the biggest challenge for us as it leads to corruption among our men" and rise in criminal activities, he told reporters at the BSF headquarters in New Delhi.

He said the people who are smuggling captured cattle to Bangladesh are just couriers and those that finance the trade never come into the picture.

"I can think of only one solution, why not allow cattle export," he added.

Bangladesh is a beef-eating country and its own resources were not able to meet the requirements, encouraging cattle smuggling from India.

Source: ia.rediff.com