Muslim Man Lynched to Death in Central India for ‘Slaughtering Cow’

A Muslim man has been beaten to death by an angry mob of villagers in India for allegedly killing a bovine – an act considered a crime and punishable by imprisonment under local laws.
The gruesome incident took place in Amgara village in the “Heart of India” – central Madhya Pradesh state – on Thursday night, local media report. The villagers allegedly noticed two men, later identified in reports as Riyaz Khan and Shakeel Maqbool, with the animal near a quarry.

Conflicting reports say it was either a cow or a bull, but the killing of either is considered a criminal offence under state laws. Madhya Pradesh prohibits the slaughter of cows, calves, bulls, bullocks and buffalo calves. However, the locals apparently decided to take the matters into their own hands.

“The villagers saw them [Khan and Maqbool] slaughtering bulls. They got angry and attacked them,” local police official Rajendra Pathak said, as cited by the Indian Express. 

Both men were brutally lynched by the villagers, with 45-year-old Riyaz later succumbing to his injuries. Maqbool was taken to hospital in a critical condition. Police who arrived at the scene found slaughtered cattle and the meat of two other animals packed in bags, senior police officer Rajesh Hingankar said, as cited by NDTV. 

At least four men were arrested following the lynching. In a separate case, the authorities also filed a complaint against Khan and Maqbool, accusing them of cattle slaughter, which is a punishable offence in a number of Indian states, including Madhya Pradesh. The state has recently increased the jail term for cow slaughter to seven years and a fine of Rs. 5,000 ($73). 

“On the basis of the FIR [first information report] lodged by the villager, Shakeel [Maqbool] will be arrested after he is discharged from the hospital,” Hingankar added. Maqbool has reportedly denied all charges against him.

India has recently seen a rise in so-called ‘cow vigilantes,’ who attack farmers and violently prevent cattle from being slaughtered. In summer 2017, a Muslim teen was allegedly stabbed to death for carrying beef. In a separate incident, a farmer who was transporting cows was killed on a road trip. 

In 2017, Human Rights Watch (HRW) called upon the Indian authorities to prosecute ‘cow vigilantes,’ arguing that Muslims are often targets of attacks, along with members of India’s lowest caste. 

Cows are considered sacred by Hindus, who make up almost 80 percent of India's population. Muslims account for 14 percent of the population, according to 2011 census data.

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Conversion Threat: BAJRANG DAL’S VALMIKI MEMBERS BREAK IDOLS

Moradabad: Describing Yogi Sarkar of Uttar Pradesh as anti-Dalit, at least families of fifty Valmiki communities of Moradabad district have threatened to abandon Hinduism and adopt Islam.

On Saturday, people accused the BJP of being anti-Dalit and sacked statues of gods and goddesses of Hindu religion in Ramganga river in their homes. They immersed the idols and the images in the nearby river.

People gathered in the Chhatarpur Park of Jigar Colony and shouted slogans against the BJP government. Although activists of Bajrang Dal had also come and made desperate attempts to persuade them but the people of Valmiki community refused to budge and threaten to read namaz and would adopt Islam.

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Muslim Exodus from A Sambhal Village due to Terror

Lucknow, May 12: Eight Muslim families have fled their western Uttar Pradesh village following three consecutive nights of attacks by armed mobs, despite police security, after a young Muslim man was accused of eloping with a married Hindu neighbour.

The development fits neatly into the "love jihad" narrative, whose promoters include current chief minister Yogi Adityanath and which entails an alleged plot by young Muslim men to seduce and convert Hindu women.

The families left Nandrauli village of Sambhal district, 420km northwest of Lucknow, last night after the third attack, which happened hours after a deputy inspector-general of police had visited the village to reassure the Muslims.

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Police Backs Cow Terrorists in Jammu

Jammu: Police came to rescue of a Gujjar-Bakarwal family when their truck carrying cows was cornered by a group of self-styled cow vigilantes at Narwal Jammu on Friday night.

The incident invited condemnation from Muslim organizations of Jammu who demanded strict action against the goons.

 Eyewitnesses told news agency CNS that a group of self-styled cow vigilantes stopped a truck carrying cows near Narwal Jammu. Fearing for their lives, the Gujjar family locked the truck and refused to come down. Despite informing them that the truck has valid government permission, the cow vigilantes continuously chanted ‘Bam Bam Bole’ slogans.

 Eyewitnesses added that a police flying squad tried to pacify the self-styled cow vigilantes; however, the goons tried to assault them and forced them to retreat. “A respectable lawyer from Bhatandi Jammu tried to intervene; however, cow vigilantes didn’t budge and tried to drag out the cows from the truck. When this drama was going on, a police party from Bagh-e-Bahu police station emerged on the spot and dispersed the cow vigilantes. The police seized the truck as well.

When contacted, a police official from Bagh-e-Bahu police station said the truck was released as the Gujjar family was carrying a valid permission. When asked why an FIR was not lodged against miscreants, he said the matter was resolved amicably.

Meanwhile, Jammu Muslim Front while condemning the incident said that it is the job of police to check cow smuggling and self-styled ‘Gau-rakshaks’ exist only to harass nomads. “It is shameful that the family carrying with valid permission was harassed and intimidated,” president Jammu Muslim Front Qazi Imran told CNS.

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Hindu Farmers and Cattle Traders, Angry with Gau Rakshaks

Those who buy and sell milch cows and oxen for farm work say cow vigilantes have made it impossible for them to conduct their business.

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Cow vigilantism has been portrayed as a blowback against the Muslim community’s insistence on consuming beef, unmindful of the fact that slaughtering cows hurts Hindus who worship the animal. This depiction has framed the cow as an incendiary issue between Hindus and Muslims, an irreconcilable clash of cultures, so to speak.


This narrative was challenged during a three-day dharna that civil society groups and a clutch of political parties organised in Jaipur from April 24 to protest the killing of Pehlu Khan, a dairy farmer who was waylaid in Alwar on April 1 while transporting milch cattle to his farm.
“We insisted it was not a Muslim issue,” said Kavita Srivastava, president, Rajasthan People’s Union for Civil Liberties, who was one of the organisers of the demonstration. “Lynching is unacceptable because it does away with the rule of law.”

Srivastava said the dharna was also a protest against criminalising the victim. “The Rajasthan home minister [Gulab Chand Kataria] continues to defend those who killed Pehlu Khan,” she said. “They are gau goondas, not gau rakshaks.”

It is very likely that some readers will dismiss Srivastava’s remark as typical of the irreverence Left-liberal activists have for religion and its symbols. But Srivastava’s sentiment is shared by many Hindu farmers, dairy owners and traders who are simmering with anger against thugs masquerading as cow protectors.

Their anger is reflected in six separate clips made from a lengthy video that a journalist friend sent to this writer. He filmed it at the cattle market held every week in Jaipur. The footage was shot on April 8. The journalist-friend’s questions to a cattle trader triggered a passionate debate in which both Hindus and Muslims participated, belying the claims that the two communities have been divided because of their contrarian sentiments on the cow.
Each of the clips in the story is followed by a synopsis for those who do not understand Hindi.

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Mahadalit Women Thrashed for Entering Temple

One of the victims said some village strongmen beat them up for resisting an attempt to prevent them from entering a temple at Bishunpur Baghnagari village in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district.

Tension prevails at a village in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district, 71 km north of state capital Patna, for the second consecutive day after a Mahadalit woman registered an FIR alleging that she and other women of her family were prevented by some village strongmen from entering a temple.

Complainant Usha Devi, 30, of Bishunpur Baghnagari village in Sakra police station area said they were also thrashed for registering their protest on Friday.

Confirming the lodging of FIR, police said the injured women were provided first aid at Sakra primary health centre.

Muzaffarpur deputy superintendent of police (east) Mutaffique Ahmad said a police team was camping at the village to avert any untoward incident.

“We have strengthened security arrangements in the village in the view of tension after registration of FIR against four named and three unidentified accused. The FIR was registered on the basis of statement made by Devi,” Ahmed said.

The DSP said Devi, in her petition, alleged that Srinath Mishra, Aman Kumar, Shiv Kumar Mishra and some other village strongmen stopped them from entering a village temple when she her relatives went there to perform a pre-wedding ritual of her brother-in-law. “Devi said when they offered resistance, they were beaten up,” the DSP added.

However, a villager, on the condition of anonymity, said a cart accompanying Devi and her family was playing bawdy songs on the public address system. “The accused asked them to stop playing of songs. This infuriated the male members of Devi’s family, who got into heated arguments with the accused,” he said.

Shravan Giri, the priest of the temple where incident allegedly took place, denied any such incident. “Some women had come to perform puja. They even handed over to me ‘dakshina’ (donation) after offering prayers,” he added.

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1000 Muslims Massacred: Killers Scotfree

"Do you have any information about Adam? It has been many years since I have seen him. Is he coming home?" asks 75-year-old Roshanbi, her tired and vacant eyes full of hope. Paralysed waist down due to the shock and resultant illness following her son's disappearance, Roshanbi mistakes journalists coming to her as officers who might give information about her son who disappeared on January 10, 1993 during the Mumbai riots.

For 13 years, Roshanbi has been sitting in a dark dingy passage leading to her squalid hutment, near Hari Masjid waiting for her son. Mohammed Adam Hassan, around 30 then, was among the 60 youths rounded up at the Hari Masjid area during the riots. Most of them came back. Adam did not. He is am-ong the 168 officially missing.

According to the Srikrishna Commission Report which investigated the 1992-93 riots, the police made namaazis of Hari Masjid stand in a line and forced one Adam and another person to pick up dead bodies (after the police shot dead seven of them reportedly for rioting) and put them in vehicles. Later, he was taken by the police along with other youths. He never returned.
"It is surprising that the police claimed to have fired in order to save violent clashes. There were no injury marks nor were there any mobs," says advocate Zia-ul-Mustafa who has been fighting the cases for those who were charged from the Hari Masjid area.

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Woman Cop Highlights: Police Abuse Of Adivasi Girls

In light of this, the revelations by Dongre are important. Before her post was taken down, it was shared widely on social media — much to the chagrin of police authorities in the state. As a result, the state has ordered a probe against her for raising these concerns on a public platform like Facebook. A senior government official said, “The CM (Raman Singh) had also asked officials to refrain from making such personal remarks.”

Following armed attacks in Sukma district that killed 35 CRPF soldiers in April, Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh has called for a meeting on May 5 to build a comprehensive strategy for a counter-attack in the region. Dongre’s comments are simply another side of the same coin because they highlight the larger situation in which human rights abuses against Adivasi people take place. In the now-deleted post, Dongre had written: “The truth is that all natural and mineral resources are in these forests, which industrialists and capitalists have to empty out in order to sell.”

She goes on to comment on what the Adivasi community in Chhattisgarh must go through because of this: “They want Naxalism to end, but the way that the protectors of the nation abuse their daughters and daughters-in-law, the way they are burning their houses, filing false complaints against them so they are sent to rot in prison… where will they go to get justice? Don’t take my word for it, the CBI reports say this, the Supreme Court says this, this is the ground reality.“

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Violent Attacks on Christians in India

Violent attacks against Christians in India have increased at an alarming rate in 2016, with one attack occurring every 40 hours, according to a new report.

The report, published by All India Christian Council (AICC), indicated that the attacks against Christians were up by 20 percent in 2016. It also noted that physical violence against believers rose by 40 percent and murders have doubled.

“The attacks have become severe and more frequent. Incidents used to be confined to a few states. Now the violence has spread to 23 states,” it stated, noting that the sharpest rise was in the northern Uttar Pradesh state and the southern state of Telangana.

The report titled “Atrocities on Christians in India” highlights incidents of church workers being threatened, beaten and killed, as well as churches and Christian schools being vandalized, torched, bombed, and demolished. Other attacks include forced conversions of Christians to Hinduism and the disruption of church services and prayer meetings.

The rise in the attacks coincides with the victory of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the national election in 2014.

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Vigilantes terrorism in India

On April 21, five members of a family, including a 9-year-old girl, were seriously injured in an attack by a large, illegal gau rakshak (“cow protection”) vigilante group in the Reasi district of Jammu & Kashmir. The nomadic tribal people were herding their livestock, including 16 cows and calves, when they were intercepted near the Talwara area and assaulted with iron rods.

The group belonged to two important front organisations of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (National Volutereeer Association) and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

The tribesmen reported that the attackers absconded with their goats, sheep and cows. The nine-year-old girl suffered multiple fractures and one of the children went missing. Even the elders were beaten up. Their attackers also threatened to throw them into a nearby river.

Jammu & Kashmir is home to a large number of nomadic tribal herder groups that travel between Jammu’s Himalayan mountains every year for grazing.

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Indian Muslims Under Attack

In India, attacks on Muslims and other religious minorities –under the pretext of protecting cows- have dramatically increased ever since the right-wing Hindu nationalist party came to power. As Munawar Zaman reports from New Delhi, the violence has seen an escalation. That especially after last month’s appointment of a hard-line Hindu religious leader as chief minister of the state of Uttar Pradesh, which is home to much of the country's Muslim-dominated meat industry.

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Does India need a new Ram Temple

A response to the author's newspaper piece titled, 'Why we need a Ram Temple in Ayodhya'

Dear Chetan,

I just read a piece you have written in a newspaper titled Why we need a Ram Temple in Ayodhya, and felt I should respond.

Now, as everyone knows, you are one of contemporary India’s most popular writers. Besides putting out your novels, you also tweet regularly, and write columns in different papers, and a lot of people read what you write. Whenever I have come across something you have written, more often than not I have disagreed with it. Often I will laugh at some article by you or some comment you have made, but till now I have not felt the need to engage or argue with you. So, why do I need to respond now, and why to this particular piece of writing? Let me try and explain.

Chetan, our country and society are at a very dangerous moment in our history. For reasons I have laid out before and will briefly repeat below, I am very wary of Narendra Modi, his organisation the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-Bharatiya Janata Party and their Hindutva ideology. However, I cannot imagine that all the millions who have voted for Modi and his people are all believers in the world-view that the prime minister and his close followers hold.

For every possibly dodgy Electronic Voting Machine vote that the RSS-BJP may have gained, I have to accept that there may be many more voters who have voted for them believing in the promises of sabka vikaas – a non-corrupt government, a non-dynastic, non-nepotistic party command, and so on.

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Bajrang Dal activists brandish Swords, Trishul’s in Jammu - Hindu Terror

Brandishing sharp edged weapons, Bajrang Dal activists Tuesday took out a rally in Old City Jammu to strengthen movement to evict Rohingya Muslim refugees from Jammu region.

The rally started from Akhada near Tawi Bridge on the occasion of Hanuman Janmotsav, where over 200 youth joined Bajrang Dal, in presence of senior saffron leaders.
After the function was over, the Bajrang Dal activists took out a motorbike rally brandishing swards and trishuls.
The activists took rounds of the City before the rally culminated at the temple near Shalamar.
“Over 200 youth joined Bajrang Dal. We have pledged to raise voice against the illegal stay of Rohingya Muslims and Bangladeshi nationals in Jammu as it is a security concern. We will drive them out from Jammu,” said one of the Bajrang Dal activists, while talking to Kashmir Post.
He said that they took out rally with a motive to spread awareness among residents of Jammu against the illegal stay of Rohingya Muslims.

“Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has failed to give rights to refugees who are struggling since 1947, 1965 and 1971 and now the government is talking about a policy for these illegally settled Rohingya Muslims and Bangladeshi nationals,” said Bajrang Dal leader Rakesh Sharma.
“We are ready to meet any challenge in Jammu,” added another Bajrang Dal leader while speaking before the saffron group in Akhada near Tawi Bridge in a provocative way.
Amid sloganeering of ‘Jai Shri Ram,’ in a provocative speech, the Bajrang Dal leader said “Vo Jahan Be Hume Bulae Gay Hum Wahan Aaege, Vo Samaiy (time) Aur Jagha Be Uske Hoge. Hum Vahi Pohanch Jaye Ge. (If they call us at the place of their choice, we will reach there. We accept the challenge).”
Raking up another controversy, the Bajrang Dal leaders said that they have started door-to-door campaign in Jammu to ensure construction of Ram Temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya.
“Until Ram Temple is constructed in Ayodhya, we will continue our movement and spread awareness “among the people about the issue”. This time, the Ram Temple will be constructed,” Bajrang Dal leader said.

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Cow Vigilantes are ‘Terrorising People’, Book Them Under anti-Terror Laws: Swami Agnivesh

🔻The way cow vigilantes are terrorising people, their act should be considered a crime committed by a terrorist, and booked under the sections of law similar to that are applicable on terrorists, he said addressing a gathering here.

Social activist Swami Agnivesh on Monday sought to equate cow vigilantes with terrorists and demanded they should be booked under the stringent anti-terror laws for allegedly terrorising people.

The way cow vigilantes are terrorising people, their act should be considered a crime committed by a terrorist, and booked under the sections of law similar to that are applicable on terrorists, he said addressing a gathering here.

Social organisations today organised a protest at Shahid Smarak here demanding the arrest of the cow vigilantes accused in the lynching of a 55-year-old Pehlu Khan in Alwar.

The President emeritus of World Council of Arya Samaj also said that the police should also book those who sell cow without enquiring about the buyers.

“There should be no politics in the name of cow,” he said.

He assured the family members of Pehlu Khan that he would support them for justice.

Kavita Srivastava of PUCL, Nishat Hussain of Muslim Women Welfare Society and member of Muslim Personal Law Board, Yasmin Farooqui also joined the protest. They also handed over a charter of demands, addressed to Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, to the district administration.

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Attacked for Honking at a Cow

Police said driver Ganesh Mandal fell unconscious when he was hit with a baton on his left eye by the owner of the cow in Saharsa district of Bihar.

Ganesh Mandal was punished for honking a cow

Amid rising incidents of cow vigilantism, a driver of a pick-van is suspected to have been blinded in his left eye after he was attacked for allegedly scaring a bovine by honking horn in north Bihar’s Saharsa district.

The incident took place at Maina village in Sonbarsa Raj police station area, 250 km north of state capital Patna, on Thursday evening.

Police said driver Ganesh Mandal, 30, was returning home at Bochahi village in neighbouring Bhagalpur district from Saharsa when he came across a cow roaming on national highway-107. “Mandal honked the horn so that the cow could get out of his way. Instead, the bovine panicked and ran away. This made the owner of the cow, who was nearby, furious and he rained baton blows on Mandal,” the police said. The cow owner had been identified as Ram Dular Yadav, they added.

Mandal fell unconscious when he was hit on his left eye, the police said, adding that he was rushed to the nearby primary health centre (PHC). When Mandal, after regaining consciousness, complained that he was unable to see out of his left eye, the doctor at the PHC referred him to the government hospital at Saharsa. The patient was bleeding profusely from his left eye and the possibility of his losing vision could not be ruled out, the PHC doctor said.

While Saharsa civil surgeon Ashok Kumar Singh was not in the town, deputy superintendent of the district hospital said the patient left for Bhagalpur for treatment at the better-equipped medical college hospital there.

Ram Dular Yadav, meanwhile, denied the charge that his cow was roaming on the NH. “I was, in fact, milking the cow when the driver scared it by honking the horn,” he told reporters.

Sonbarsa Raj police station SHO Mohammad Izhar Alam said an FIR had been registered on the basis of the complaint by Mnadal. Further investigation was on, he said.

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Dalits Denied Water in Madhya Pradesh

मध्यप्रदेश में दलितों पर अत्याचार दिन प्रतिदिन बढ़ता ही जा रहा है, और #MPGov चुपचाप बैठ कर देख रही है। दलित विरोधी है मध्यप्रदेस सरकार।

Terror of the Gau-Rakshak

Three weeks ago, a 40-second video of a man being thrashed on what looks like a highway went viral. He was wearing a white kurta-pyjama which was torn as a result of repeated blows by 15-odd youngsters. There was blood, there was screaming and there was very little information about what really was happening. 

In the hours since he had died. Pehlu Khan, a resident of Haryana was transporting three cows from Jaipur to Haryana for his house. He'd originally wanted to buy a buffalo but couldn't afford it so settled for the cows. As he was crossing Rajasthan, his truck was stopped and dragged out and thrashed. Days later, he died in hospital. The gathered crowd, all students from nearby places who called them Gau Rakshaks were convinced he was transporting cows for slaughter, no documents were sought, but he was Muslim and very often that's enough in India.

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US Human Rights Questions India

Bhopal: The US State department report on human right has referred to five cases in Madhya Pradesh, including the alleged encounter of eight suspected SIMI operatives and the famous Vyapam scam in the state.

The report on Human Rights Practices for 2016 for India also referred to cow vigilantism in MP’s Mandsaur, a custodial death and “highest untouchability practices” in the state.

SIMI encounter is mentioned on the page 3 of the report under the heading “Arbitrary Deprivation of Life and other Unlawful or Politically Motivated Killings”.

It says on October 31, Madhya Pradesh police “reportedly killed eight suspected members of the outlawed Students’ Islamic Movement of India”, after they allegedly murdered a prison guard and escaped from the high-security Central Jail of Bhopal. “On November 1, the NHRC issued a formal complaint against the state government, police, and prison authorities, expressing concern about deaths. The Madhya Pradesh police appointed a special investigation team to investigate the killings”, it says.

Under the same section it also talks about an alleged custodial death in the state. The report says “On April 9, 20-year-old Sunil Yadav was found dead in Umri police station in Madhya Pradesh, four days after his arrest on charges of theft. Madhya Pradesh police suspended four police personnel and ordered a judicial inquiry”.

The report talks about famous Vyapam scam under the section “Corruption and Lack of Transparency in Government”.

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HC Tough on UP Slaughterhouse Crackdown

Private life of an individual is being severely affected due to a crackdown on slaughterhouses, the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court observed today while hearing a petition filed by a meat shop owner seeking renewal of the license.

The court, accordingto the report by News 18 , has given Uttar Pradesh government 10 days to convene a meeting and decide on the issue so that the livelihood of individuals and their right to carry a trade and profession is not neglected in any way. The next hearing will be on April 13.

According to the petitioner, a goat meat seller, the Nagar Palika Parishad of Lakhimpur Kheri was not renewing his license that expired on March 31. This is directly affecting his ability to survive since he earns his living by selling goat meat.

Besides noting that the inaction of the state government affects livelihood of the meat shop owners and violate their right to trade and profession—fundamental rights guaranteed under Article 19 of the Constitution—the division bench of Justice Amreshwar Pratap Sahi and Justice Sanjai Harkauli observed that the “inaction of the state government in the past should not be a shield for imposing a state of almost prohibition”.

Asserting that the Uttar Pradesh government cannot ignore legal slaughterhouses, it stated that providing an immediate check on unlawful activity “should be simultaneous with facilitating the carrying out of lawful activity”, particularly as that’s related to food and food habits, which is undisputedly connected with the right to life. The court also observed that “sudden closure of facilities of slaughtering has forced retail vendors to face the abrupt curtains drawn on their means of livelihood”.

The court also said that food habits, socio-economic status of the society, availability of foodstuff at affordable prices and the convenience of availability are “issues that need a deliberation before any overt or covert action is taken”.

According to media reports, about 2.5 million people are directly or indirectly employed in this Rs 26,000-crore industry of Uttar Pradesh. Out of the 72 government-approved slaughterhouses in the country, more than half of them are in Uttar Pradesh.

While government records suggest that Uttar Pradesh has more than 375 illegal slaughterhouses, the state pollution control board says there are 185 abattoirs in the state of which 140 were operating illegally. In the last few weeks, the government has sealed more than 20 illegal slaughterhouses and several meat shops in the state. 

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No Regret Over Pehlu’s Death: Alwar BJP MLA

‘He was a cow smuggler... sinners like him will meet this fate’

BJP MLA Gyan Dev Ahuja on Monday said he had no regrets over the death of Pehlu Khan, a dairy farmer who was beaten to death allegedly by cow vigilantes in Alwar. 

Speaking to reporters outside the Rajasthan Assembly, Alwar MLA Ahuja said, 
“Kanoon humko haath mein nahi lena chahiye. Lekin uski maut hui. Uske liye humko koi afsosh nahi hai. Aur afsosh karoonga bhi nahi kyunki jo gau taskar hain, gau hatyare hain, aise paapiyon ka yehi harsh hota raha hai, hota rahega (We should not take law into our hands. But we have no regret over his death because those who are cow-smugglers are cow-killers, sinners like them have met this fate earlier and will continue to do so).”

Targeting the Congress for raising the issue of Khan’s death in the Assembly, Ahuja said, “Bilkul gau-taskar tha, uske hamare paas sabut hain, ab ye Congressi kyun chilla-pon kar rahe hain, itni tushtikaran ki neeti apna rahe hain, aur raag alaap rahe hain unhi logon ke liye jo desh ke ghaddar hain, ye Congressi desh ke ghaddaron ka puraskar dena chahte hain, aur desh bhakton ka tiraskar karna chahte hain, gau-taskaron ka gau-hatyaron ka samarthan kar rahe hain (Definitely he was a smuggler and we have proof of that. Why are these Congressmen crying foul, using their policy of appeasement and singing praises for the very people who are traitors of this country. They want to reward traitors and insult patriots, they are supporting cow-smugglers and killers).”

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