The Pant Nagar police have rescued 12 horses and sent notices to seven horse owners for conducting horse cart races on Eastern Express Highway in the wee hours of Monday. The police have identified all the accused who were seen racing on the highway.

The cops took the help of the BMC to rescue the horses that are currently at the civic body’s rescue centre. The horse owners have been asked to visit the police station for the investigations and have been booked under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act.