Striking Images Of A Vigilante Group Protecting India's Cows

By day, they are city dwellers going about their daily lives. By night, India's "cow vigilantes" band together, to catch people who smuggle and kill cows for profit. Last weekend, Bangladesh-based Getty Images photographer Allison Joyce followed a local cow vigilante group in the Ramgarh district of Rajasthan, an Indian state along the Pakistani border, as they patrolled the streets for cow smugglers come nightfall. Hindus worship cows as sacred beings, and many of the animals can be seen wande...