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Cow vigilante violence is a pattern of mob-based collective vigilante violence seen in India. The attacks are perpetuated by Hindu nationalists against non-Hindus (mostly Muslims) to protect cows, which are considered sacred in Hinduism. [1] [2] [3]
The anti-Cow Killing riots of 1893 in Punjab caused the death of at least 100 people. [15] [16] The 1893 cow killing riots started during the Muslim festival of Bakr-Id, the riot repeated in 1894, and they were the largest riots in British India after the 1857 revolt. [17]
The 2017 Alwar mob lynching was the attack and murder of Pehlu Khan, a dairy farmer from Nuh district of Haryana, allegedly by a group of 200 cow vigilantes affiliated with right-wing Hindutva groups in Behror in Alwar, Rajasthan, India on 1 April, 2017. [3] [4] [5] Six others who were with Pehlu Khan were also beaten by the cow vigilantes. [6] [7]
Vishnu Dabad attributes his rise from poverty to powerful local politician to an animal: the cow. The 30-year-old is one of many Gau Rakshaks, or cow protectors: activists who have taken Indian ...
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Meat Seller Thrashed by UP Police for 'Cow Slaughter' Dies in AIIMS. [39] 20 June 2018 Hapur, Uttar Pradesh: 1 45-year-old Qasim lynched in UP over cow slaughter rumour [40] This incident was at the center of a sting operation conducted by NDTV. [41] The Chief Justice of India agreed to hear the case based on the sting operation footage. [41 ...
On 11 July 2016, the seven members of a Dalit family were skinning the carcasses of a dead cow in Mota Samadhiyala village near Una in Gir Somnath district of Gujarat. They had bought the carcass from Bediya village. They were approached by men in two cars who claimed to be a member of a "cow protection group" and accused them of killing cows ...