1 SHOT DEAD BY COW VIGILANTES
Seven months after Pehlu Khan, a dairy farmer who was lynched by cow vigilantes in Alwar, a Muslim man was shot dead allegedly by cow vigilantes again in Alwar district of Rajasthan. The incident took place in the wee hours of Friday and was being made out to be a railway accident.
Even after two days of the alleged murder, no FIR has been registered.
Ummar Khan and Tahir Khan along with two others were transporting the cows to Bharatpur when they were waylaid by the mob and assaulted. Ummar, 32, died of a bullet wound. His body was found 12 km from the Ramgarh police station and shifted to a mortuary. He is survived by his wife and eight children.
Two others who received minor injuries fled from the scene. One of them, Tahir Muhammad, is being treated at a hospital.
“The attack took place at around five on Friday morning,” said Sher Muhammad, sadar of district Meo panchayat.
Seven months after Pehlu Khan, a dairy farmer who was lynched by cow vigilantes in Alwar, a Muslim man was shot dead allegedly by cow vigilantes again in Alwar district of Rajasthan. The incident took place in the wee hours on Friday. But even after two days of the murder, no FIR in the case has been registered.
Sher Muhammad alleged that Ummar Khan was killed by Gau Rakshaks and they tried to show the death an accident by getting a moving train to run over his body. The family members recognised Ummar with the help of his slippers.
While the police remained tightlipped about the incident refusing to answer calls by this newspaper, Meo community has alleged an attempt to cover up the incident. Several members of the Meo Muslim community gathered outside the district hospital in Alwar and demanded action against the cow vigilante groups. Ummar Khan’s relatives filed a complaint against the assailants and alleged that Khan was shot dead by gau rakshkas.
“We won’t accept the body till the case is registered and copy of the FIR is given to us,” said Maulana Hanif, vice president of Jamait-UlRajasthan. Alleging cover up, Maulana Hanif said that two bullets were shot at Ummar — one in his chest and the other went through his left shoulder but the doctors now say that they can't trace bullet marks in the body. "To remove evidence, they have disfigured the body,” he alleged.
However, the police remained tight lipped about the incident. SP Rahul Prakash and SHO Govindgarh did not respond to repeated phone calls by the newspaper while in charge of the police control room said that he has not received any information from the Govindgarh police station about this incident.