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The CPM has sought intervention of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) into the killing of two Muslim cattle traders in Jharkhand’s Latehar district.
“The fundamental right of an Indian citizen to peacefully follow his/her chosen profession within the framework of the law has been brutally violated… It is a case not just of two persons being hanged to death by a lynch mob, but the Constitution of India itself that is being hanged. This is a case which requires the direct intervention of the NHRC,” CPM politburo member Brinda Karat said in a memorandum to the NHRC.
The bodies of Mohammad Majloom (35) and Inayatullah Khan (12) were found hanging from a tree near a village in Latehar district earlier this month. So far, eight people have been arrested in this connection.
Karat said the police and administration were “deliberately running a misleading campaign that the murder was a case of robbery by the cattle thieves and that there was a personal motive behind the murder”.
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