Ranchi: A mob killed a man allegedly carrying beef in Jharkhand on June 29, hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi termed killing people in the name of cow protection as unacceptable.
Police sources said Alimuddin alias Asgar Ansari was carrying the “banned meat” in a van in Ramgarh district.
A mob stopped him near Bajartand village and attacked him. His van was also set on fire too.
Police l rescued him and took him to a hospital where he died during treatment.
“It’s premeditated murder,” Additional Director General of Police RK Mallik told IANS.
“Asgar was chargesheeted for child abduction and murder,” the officer said, adding that some people involved in beef trade hatched a conspiracy to kill him. “The killers have been identified,” he said.
Tension escalated in the area after a police team returned with the dead body and a crowd gathered outside the Ramgarh police station.
This is second such case in Jharkhand in the past three days.
In Giridih district, a mob thrashed a person and set on fire his house after a cow head was found.
Earlier in the day, the prime minister said at a function in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, that his government would not allow anyone to take the law into their hands. “Killing people in the name of gau bhakti (devotion for cow) is not acceptable. This is not something Mahatma Gandhi would approve of,” he added.
On June 28, thousands turned up in Delhi and four other cities across the country holding aloft placards as a part of the #NotInMyName demonstrations calling for an end to the lynching of innocent Muslims by cow vigilantes.