KAKINADA: The state government is planning to conduct Income Tax raids on potential participants in the illegal cockfights during the ensuing Sankranti. Already the police are in the process of getting information about the participants and telephoning them against coming to the likely venues.
The police are keeping an eye on locals and non-locals in towns of East and West Godavari districts. Whoever is coming to participate in cockfights would be booked and arrested.
The second wave of Covid-19 scare and High Court directions to curb cockfights are haunting the police, which has to prevent conduct of the centuries old tradition. West Godavari police officials said that they have informed IT teams to conduct raids on participants.
West Godavari Superintendent of Police K.N. Naick gave strict instructions to the police to take preventive steps against organizing cockfights. The police got bind-over cases on 3,000 persons recently and are conducting raids on…