Showing posts with label pehlu khan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pehlu khan. Show all posts

Sunday, April 30, 2017

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.

Saturday, April 29, 2017

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.