Livestock Fine Transforms Arunachal Village

Ledum gets a makeover after elders prescribed penalties for roaming pigs & cows

- Rahul Karmakar

Breaking the rules of the road attracts little or no fine in Arunachal Pradesh, unless the “traffic law” violator is a pig or a cow in a village in the Frontier State’s East Siang district.

Three years before the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 2019, prescribed heavy penalties for traffic violators across India, the elders of Ledum village imposed fines on livestock loitering on the road leading to district headquarters Pasighat.

The quantum of fine read: a bullet for a pig, ₹500 for a cow and the possibility of it being auctioned off.