Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Nov 20: Mutton dealers in Kashmir today alleged that they continue to face harassment and extortion on Punjab highways while transporting livestock, alleging that their trucks are being stopped unnecessarily and forced to pay large sums despite repeated Government assurances.

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Addressing a press conference in Srinagar, Mehraj-ud-Din Ganie, president of the Wholesale Mutton Dealers Union Kashmir, said traders are witnessing “growing hooliganism” by private contractors along multiple stretches of the highway. He said their livestock trucks are being forcibly halted and pressured into paying hefty amounts “under the pretext of cattle fare charges.”

Ganie said the dealers do not purchase livestock in Punjab and only use the state a

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