Updated On: 04 July, 2019 05:03 PM IST | | mid-day online desk
The villagers took down half a dozen animals and set the empty tempo on fire

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Thane: A tempo was set on fire by an irate mob of villagers suspecting that it was smuggling cattle in Thane district of Maharashtra on Wednesday. Police said that the alleged incident occurred at Dahigaon near Shahapur.
According to reports, a tempo carrying cattle was stopped by an angry mob of Villagers on suspicion that the animals were being smuggled and taken to a slaughterhouse near Baghecha Pada about 9 pm Tuesday night.