CBI should probe murder of UP man ferrying cattle: Punjab and Haryana HC

The court had slammed the administration during earlier hearings too. “The local administration, be it the police or otherwise, by their muteness and connivance, are allowing terror to be unleashed upon persons involved in trading of animals. It is not out of place to remark here that… such groups are bent upon circumventing law and fleecing poor persons who are ferrying their animals, be it for any personal/domestic use or otherwise,” the order said.

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The petitioner had initially moved the High Court seeking release of his son from illegal police custody in Shahbad after Mustain, who had left his home in Saharanpur for Shahbad in Kurukshetra on the morning of March 5 with Rs 41,000 for purchasing a buffalo. When Mustain did not return, the petitioner on March 9 lodged a complaint with Gangoh police in Saharanpur. Later, the petitioner on March 12 went to Shahbad police station but did not get any information. The court was then informed that the petitioner apprehended that his son might have been eliminated by the Shahbad police.

On the directions of the High Court, a warrant officer was appointed, who, in his report, submitted that on the intervening night of March 5 and 6, members of Gau Raksha Dal had accosted a vehicle carrying five cattle and blocked the road. This lead to a shootout. “An incident during the intervening night of March 5 and 6 has taken place in the area/jurisdiction of Shahbad police station, in which so-called vigilante group constituted with the backing of political bosses and senior functionaries of the government under the name of Gau Raksha Dal has sought to take law in its own hands,” the report said.

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