This is the bizarre moment a group of thieves in India somehow managed to fit a cow into a small hatchback car and make a successful getaway. <br /><br />CCTV footage shows the thieves pulling up on a road in Ankaleshwar in Gujarat, India in the early hours of the morning on February 7.<br /><br />Three of them get out of the vehicle and coax the cow towards them.<br /><br />The animal is reluctant but they manage to bundle it into the hatchback through the door of the boot (trunk).<br /><br />A dog comes barking but is shooed away with a stone as another cow in the vicinity stands up in alarm. <br /><br />The Ankaleshwar police have taken possession of the CCTV footage of the theft and are probing the case.<br /><br />There have been several incidents of thieves using cars to steal cows either for slaughter or to sell them for money. <br /><br />Many Indian states have banned slaughter of cows, which are treated as sacred animals in Hinduism. <br /><br />The ban is being enforced strictly by the present BJP government, which subscribes to the Hindutva ideology. <br /><br />Many clever cattle thieves use cars to steal and smuggle cows as police rarely check them while looking for stolen animals.
