Cow slaughter is banned in Uttar Pradesh.
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Superintendent of Police (Rural) Sanjay Singh said that police has been deployed in the area and an FIR has been filed against 10 people for attacking the family, six of whom were arrested.
After the spread of rumors across the village family of Iqlakh was brutally beaten by more than 200 members on Monday 8 September 2015.
Sharma had earlier urged the Opposition to not give a communal angle to the Dadri incident, in which a man was killed over alleged rumours that his family consumed and stored beef in their house. Danish, the 22 year old son of the victim was critically injured during the attack and is on ventilator support in Kailash Hospital, Noida, the police confirmed.
He also instructed the District Magistrate and Senior Superintendent of Police, Noida to provide full protection to the family of the victim.
The 100-strong mob, mostly in their twenties, had raided Akhlaque’s house after a temple priest announced over the loudspeaker around 9.30pm on Monday that a calf was slaughtered by the family and its carcass was found near the house. Politics of poison and hatred is bound to grow in the run up to the Bihar elections. A magisterial inquiry has been ordered into the incident.
Amid mounting tension over lynching of a 50-year-old man following rumours that he and his family had eaten beef, Union Minister Mahesh Sharma today descibed the incident as “an accident” even as a blame game erupted between BJP and ruling SP over it.
There were also reports that trouble started on rumours that the victim had consumed beef. It was goat’s meet. “We are in touch with our relatives and are planning to leave the village for a safe location”, said Asgari, the deceased’s 70-year-old mother, who had also sustained injuries in the attack. A clash ensued when police tried to control the mob in which one person identified as Rahul Yadav was shot at. “But the love and harmony we have for each other disappeared within seconds”, said Rajpal Singh.
Stating that it was not a “planned incident”, Nagar told The Indian Express, “When religious sentiments of people are hurt, they get agitated and this sudden anger leads to such incidents”.
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Police said although they were investigating after registering a case against 10 people but the protest continued, they had to use force to disperse the mob for which it called reinforcements from neighbouring police stations to maintain peace.
