Maharashtra wants owners of cows to submit photographs of their animals to the police

The police of Maharashtra want owners of all cows to submit photographs of their animals so that it would help the police to enforce the law to ban selling of beef. This has been reported in bbc.com dated 31 March 2015.
Police officers in the city of Malegaon, in the western Maharashtra state, say the photos are needed for reference in case a criminal case arises under the recently introduced law, which bans the slaughter of all cows and sale and consumption of their meat.

The need for photographic evidence has apparently arisen after three people were charged locally for selling beef. Wonder what purpose a photograph of the cow would serve once the deed is done – the deed means slaughter.
The census of livestock in India is taken at 5-year-intervals and the last one was taken in 2012 – as per that census, the total bovine count in Maharashtra was just over 21m. In comparison, the human count was around 112m.
Therefore, in order to have an effective and flawless mechanism to prevent illegal slaughter of cows, it would be necessary to create and maintain a database with photos of the cows. Moreover, the database must be linked to databases from other parts of the country to identify any case of theft of the cows prior to slaughter. And, once added to the database of criminals, it would need dedicated policemen at every level.

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