NEW DELHI: India could issue millions of cows with unique identification numbers, the latest effort to protect the sacred animals amid a spike in violence by Hindu vigilantes against farmers accused of cattle smuggling.
The government has told the Supreme Court that millions of cows would be tagged with a tamper-proof plastic tag linked to a national database in a bid to curb smuggling within India and beyond its borders.
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