Cow Vigilantes beat youth in Rohtak

2019-01-23

Main Information

  • Victim Names Naushad
  • Date of Incident 2019-01-23
  • Nature of Violence Religious Identity Based Violence
  • Causal factors Transportation of cattle
  • Religion of Vicitim Muslims
  • Name of Perpetrator Jashpal Gumana, and a mob
  • State Haryana
  • City/District Rohtak, Rohtak
  • Party in Power BJP

Other Information

  • Location of Incident Rohtak
  • Perpetrator Organization Other Right Wing Hindutva
  • Place of incident N/A

"Around 8:00 p.m. A man named Jashpal Gumana had been pursuing me on his scooter when we arrived in Rohtak's Bhalout village, Naushad claimed. He added that Gumana overpowered him as soon as he got out of the pick-up jeep he was in and shouted "cow smuggler." "To get the villagers in the area's attention. Naushad has worked for Sunil Kumar, a dairy owner in the Haryana village of Charkhi Dadri, for about ten years. "He was working for me, selling buffaloes at a livestock show. Our livelihood is based on this trade. He was also transporting a buffalo and two calf, not cows as the cow vigilante groups claimed," explained Sunil. Several youths arrived shortly after with sticks, He was stripped from his clothes, bound on a pole, and brutally beaten. "My nose, ear, legs, and back were bleeding before I realised what was happening. I was humiliated by a cow activist who burned a beedi on my flesh and called me a "cow smuggler," said Naushad. Rather than being taken to the police station the victim was being chained to the bed in police station. Police had registered case against the accused and victim as well.