POLICE IN INDIA ARREST THREE AFTER A MAN WAS KILLED FOR POSSESSING BEEF

Sat 11 March 2023:

Naseem Qureshi, 56, died earlier this week after being attacked by a mob on suspicion of carrying beef.

According to a police official, authorities in India have detained three individuals in eastern Bihar state in connection with the killing of a Muslim man who was attacked because he was thought to be carrying beef.

Naseem Qureshi, 56, the victim, passed away earlier this week after being beaten by a mob on the grounds that he was carrying beef, which is prohibited from sale and consumption in some areas of the nation by local governments.

Qureshi was allegedly surrounded by more than 20 people and attacked, according to a police statement in court.

Police intervened but he died on the way to the hospital, according to the statement.

Three persons were detained, according to Ramchandra Tiwari, the head of the Rasulpur police station in Bihar, where the crime was committed.

Cows are sacred in Hinduism, and there have been frequent attacks on those accused of killing them for meat or leather, predominantly people from the minority Muslim population or those on the lower rungs of India’s ancient caste system.

Hardline Hindu groups have been demanding a complete ban on cow slaughter across India.

When the Hindu nationalist administration of Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumed office in 2014, self-styled Hindu cow vigilante groups have started enforcing the law on their own.

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