Farmers across the erstwhile Adilabad district celebrated Polala festival by washing, decorating and worshipping bullocks. They offered naivedyam to the animals, acknowledged their contribution to agriculture and gave them a day’s rest, while processions and cultural programmes added to festivities
He said that the festival was an important religious affair in Hindu religion and opined that one should celebrate it to carry forward traditions to future generations.
The accused revealed that they skinned the animals at night and were delivering the beef at the doorstep of some persons under the guise of meat of spotted deer and wild boars.