Muslim man lynched on suspicion of cow smuggling
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT JAIPUR, JULY 22, 2018 00:00 IST
UPDATED: JULY 22, 2018 04:42 IST
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Inconsolable:Akbar Khan’s father, Suleman Khan, centre,at a mortuary in Alwar.SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTSPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Inconsolable:Akbar Khan’s father, Suleman Khan, centre,at a mortuary in Alwar.SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTSPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Akbar Khan was beaten to death in Rajasthan’s Alwar; police arrest 2 persons
In yet another instance of alleged cow vigilantism, a 28-year-old Muslim man was beaten to death in Rajasthan’s Alwar district on Friday night by a group of people on suspicion that he was smuggling cows.
The victim, Akbar Khan, was a resident of the Ferozepur Jhirka region in neighbouring Haryana. Khan and his friend, Aslam, were transporting two cows on foot through a forest area in Ramgarh’s Lalawandi village, when the villagers surrounded them and started thrashing them. While Aslam managed to escape, Khan was severely beaten up.
Jaipur range Inspector-General of Police Hemant Priyadarshi said at a press conference here on Saturday that two of the accused, Dharmendra Yadav and Paramjeet Singh, had been arrested.
He said the victim had spoken to policemen who reached the spot on being informed about the violence. According to the victim’s last statement, he was assaulted by five people, the official said.
“When the policemen reached the village, the two accused were standing with the cows and an injured Akbar was on the ground, covered in mud. The mud was removed from his face and he stated that he and Aslam had purchased the cows in Ladpur village and were going to their native village Kolgaon when they were stopped and attacked. He then lost consciousness,” Mr. Priyadarshi said.
Khan was taken to a government hospital in Ramgarh, where the doctors declared him brought dead. The body has been shifted to a mortuary in Alwar.
Internal injuries
Mr. Priyadarshi said Akbar apparently died due to internal injuries. Aslam’s statement was yet to be recorded. “We are investigating whether Akbar and Aslam had any past record of cow smuggling.” he said.
The two cows have been sent to a nearby gaushala and a case has been registered under Sections 302 (murder), 143 (unlawful assembly), 341 (wrongful restraint), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 34 (criminal act with common intention) of Indian Penal Code at Ramgarh police station.
Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, who was busy with the BJP’s organisational events in Jaipur attended by party president Amit Shah, has condemned the incident. She said strict action would be taken against the accused. “I have asked Home Minister Gulab Chand Kataria to get the matter investigated at the earliest,” she said.
The incident comes just over a year after a dairy farmer, Pehlu Khan, was lynched by a mob of cow vigilantes near Behror in Alwar district. Pehlu Khan and four others were transporting cows in vehicles to Haryana’s Nuh district, when they were stopped on the Jaipur-Delhi national highway and assaulted on April 1, 2017. In another incident, cow vigilantes had killed Umar Khan near Govindgarh in Alwar district in November 2017.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT JAIPUR, JULY 22, 2018 00:00 IST
UPDATED: JULY 22, 2018 04:42 IST
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Inconsolable:Akbar Khan’s father, Suleman Khan, centre,at a mortuary in Alwar.SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTSPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Inconsolable:Akbar Khan’s father, Suleman Khan, centre,at a mortuary in Alwar.SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTSPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Akbar Khan was beaten to death in Rajasthan’s Alwar; police arrest 2 persons
In yet another instance of alleged cow vigilantism, a 28-year-old Muslim man was beaten to death in Rajasthan’s Alwar district on Friday night by a group of people on suspicion that he was smuggling cows.
The victim, Akbar Khan, was a resident of the Ferozepur Jhirka region in neighbouring Haryana. Khan and his friend, Aslam, were transporting two cows on foot through a forest area in Ramgarh’s Lalawandi village, when the villagers surrounded them and started thrashing them. While Aslam managed to escape, Khan was severely beaten up.
Jaipur range Inspector-General of Police Hemant Priyadarshi said at a press conference here on Saturday that two of the accused, Dharmendra Yadav and Paramjeet Singh, had been arrested.
He said the victim had spoken to policemen who reached the spot on being informed about the violence. According to the victim’s last statement, he was assaulted by five people, the official said.
“When the policemen reached the village, the two accused were standing with the cows and an injured Akbar was on the ground, covered in mud. The mud was removed from his face and he stated that he and Aslam had purchased the cows in Ladpur village and were going to their native village Kolgaon when they were stopped and attacked. He then lost consciousness,” Mr. Priyadarshi said.
Khan was taken to a government hospital in Ramgarh, where the doctors declared him brought dead. The body has been shifted to a mortuary in Alwar.
Internal injuries
Mr. Priyadarshi said Akbar apparently died due to internal injuries. Aslam’s statement was yet to be recorded. “We are investigating whether Akbar and Aslam had any past record of cow smuggling.” he said.
The two cows have been sent to a nearby gaushala and a case has been registered under Sections 302 (murder), 143 (unlawful assembly), 341 (wrongful restraint), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 34 (criminal act with common intention) of Indian Penal Code at Ramgarh police station.
Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, who was busy with the BJP’s organisational events in Jaipur attended by party president Amit Shah, has condemned the incident. She said strict action would be taken against the accused. “I have asked Home Minister Gulab Chand Kataria to get the matter investigated at the earliest,” she said.
The incident comes just over a year after a dairy farmer, Pehlu Khan, was lynched by a mob of cow vigilantes near Behror in Alwar district. Pehlu Khan and four others were transporting cows in vehicles to Haryana’s Nuh district, when they were stopped on the Jaipur-Delhi national highway and assaulted on April 1, 2017. In another incident, cow vigilantes had killed Umar Khan near Govindgarh in Alwar district in November 2017.
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