Aligarh cow vigilante assault case: Meat in vehicle was not beef, forensic lab confirms
Four men were assaulted in Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh on Saturday after being wrongly accused of transporting beef in their vehicle.
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Police Inspector Dheeraj Kumar, the station house officer of Harduaganj police station, confirmed the development. (Representational)Four days after four men were allegedly assaulted by cow vigilantes in Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh on the suspicion that they were transporting beef, the police said on Wednesday that a forensic science laboratory had confirmed that it was not cow meat. The police had said earlier that the men were transporting buffalo meat.
Police Inspector Dheeraj Kumar, the station house officer of Harduaganj police station, confirmed the development.
The incident took place near Alhadadpur village in Aligarh on Saturday when cow vigilantes allegedly assaulted Akil, 43, Arbaaj, 38, Akeel, 35, and Nadeem, 32, with wooden and iron rods, accusing them of transporting cow meat. The accused allegedly also set their vehicle on fire and stole their phones and money.
While two FIRs were registered over the incident, four people have been arrested in the case so far. The police identified the arrested accused as Vijay Gupta, 50, Bhanu Pratap, 28, Luv Kush, 27, and Vijay Bajrangi, 23.
One of the FIRs registered at Harduaganj police station on Saturday was lodged on the basis of a complaint by Salim Khan, the father of Akeel, one of the men who was assaulted. The FIR was lodged against 38 people, 13 by name and 25 unnamed. Gupta, Bajrangi and Luv Kush were named in this FIR.
According to Khan’s complaint, the men were transporting meat purchased from a meat factory at Al-Ambar. The moment the vehicle reached Panaithi Road, several accused approached the vehicle and demanded protection money from the victims, Khan said in his complaint. He further said that they were assaulted when they refused to pay Rs 50,000.
The case was filed under sections 191(2) (rioting), 191(3) (unlawful assembly), 190 (unlawful assembly to commit an offence), 109 (attempt to murder), 308 (extortion), 310(2) (robbery) and 3(5) (joint criminal liability) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
Another FIR was registered under the Uttar Pradesh Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act on the complaint of Vijay Bajrangi against unidentified people. In his complaint, Bajrangi said that he received a tip-off and followed a vehicle near Alhadadpur village. He alleged that the vehicle driver tried to run him over when he tried to stop the vehicle.
In his complaint, Bajrangi said that he saw seven decapitated cows inside the vehicle and that the four men said they were smuggling cow meat by paying a bribe of Rs 3 lakh to the police.
The four injured men, who are receiving treatment at the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College Hospital, Aligarh, are out of danger now, SHO Kumar added.
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