rajkot mystery shrouds the disappearance of nearly 600 cows from a panjrapole cow shelter in torania village 15 km from junagadh the junagadh municipal corporation which sends cows to the shelter home to curb stray cattle menace on roads claims that the bovines are missing however the panjrapole owner and manager claims these cows died during the one year and most of them were ill due to consumption of plasticm k nandani deputy municipal commissioner jmc told toi its true that the cows which we handed over to the shelter are missing during the last year we impounded nearly 789 cows and sent them there we have issued a notice to the owner and demanded a copy of register which shows how many cows came there and and how many died and when if we find malpractice an fir will be lodgedthe civic body pay rs 3000 as onetime maintenance cost of impounded cattle sent to the shelter homehemal gujarati a government veterinary doctor said we didnt find any evidence of death of any animal in the shelter home usually animals die in big number only due to some epidemic but there is no disease outbreak here however dhiru savaliya the owner iof torania panjrapole denied the allegations talking to toi he said i havent sold any cow nearly 450 cows died in last six to seven months due to consumption of plastic before they were sent here they were already ill and villagers are witness to the fact that daily one or two cows were dying i had orally informed veterinary doctor of jmc before seven months but he said they couldnt anything if cows die due to plasticthe issue has however generated lot of heat among the local politicians as well as animal activists even as the chairman of jmcs standing committee alleged malpractices the state animal welfare board members alleged a massive scammayor adhyashakti majmudar said jmc has initiated inquiry and we will lodge fir against those responsible rajendra shah member of the welfare board claimed this is a statewide scam around 90 of the cows handed over by various corporations and municipalities to shelter homes are missing and there is no account of these animals the municipal corporation has so far sent 40408 cows to shelter home to curb the menace on roads its the duty of civic body to conduct a proper audit of the cows but this is not done