Mustain Abbas, 27, was allegedly killed and his 4 companions attacked by members of a cow vigilante group when he was on his way home after buying cattle in Kurukshetra, Haryana. Family members allege that the police at Shahbad and Peepli stations did not help. When Abbas and his companions were on their way back to the village, they saw that a police vehicle and 10-12 armed men had blocked the Shahbad-Delhi road with tractors. They realised that the men were Gau Raksha Dal members, but before the driver could reverse the Mahindra pick-up, the men had fired bullets and burst the car’s tyres. Abbas and his friends tried to flee. He was injured while running, but everyone else managed to escape. The police, according to the family, did not pay much heed to their complaint. Abbas’s father Tahir Hasan even said the police officer at Peepli police station told him to forget the case before he and his other family members also vanish. A similar threat was made at Shahbad police station. After dealing with a completely unhelpful police, the family moved the Punjab and Haryana high court on March 16. The high court ordered the immediate transfer of the Kurukshetra district magistrate, superintendent of police, deputy superintendent of police and station house officer of the Shahbad police station “to a far-off place with inconsequential posting(s)”. The court also transferred the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on May 9. The state government’s appeal to stay the CBI probe was rejected by the Supreme Court, but the transfer of the officials was put on hold. Hasan alleges his son was not killed immediately but rather abducted and then tortured for a month. “He had torture marks all over his body. He had sword wounds. Even his clothes were not the same. They did not even give him a chance to say anything. Even if he was carrying a buffalo, for instance, should they not have handed him over to the police instead of killing him mercilessly?” he said. CBI registered a fresh FIR on May 23, 2016. Also, conducted the postmortem again. CBI undertook polygraph tests, mobile tracing etc. on the accused. But overtime, CBI's attitude has changed. They are now harassing the relatives of the victim in the name of investigation – repeatedly calling them to Chandigarh. (CAH Report, 2017)