Police protect milk delivery trucks in Surat.

On Wednesday, a strange occurrence took place in SURAT. Police in Surat took the unusual step of escorting milk transport vehicles on Tuesday night, as protests by pastoralists across the state threatened to disrupt milk supply. â€Police had provided bandobast to our milk distribution vans since Tuesday night. Mansinh Patel, chairman of Sumul Dairy, said that PCR vans were constantly guarding the vans, and that police commissioner Ajay Tomar had visited the dairy on Tuesday night and assured full support. According to sources, around 140 vehicles of Sumul Dairy were used to transport milk throughout the day. The strike call turned violent when a group of miscreants resorted to ransacking Surbhi Dairy in Adajan. The owners of the private dairy have contacted Milk packets were hurled off a bridge in one such video. Milk cans were shown leaking into the river in another video, and just 2,700 of 3,700 milk distributors had ordered milk for Wednesday. Due to a lack of morning deliveries, stores that sell Amul milk throughout the day were out of supply. It is likely that some customers bought twice the quantity of milk owing to panic purchasing, but authorities from Sumul Dairy stated they had distributed approximately the same amount as their daily norm of 13 lakh liters. According to the official count, just around 2,700 of the 3,700 distributors had bought milk.