EARLIER SUCH CASES IN STATE

May 19, 2016: Cow protection vigilante group allegedly hanged to death two Muslim cattle herders in Latehar. May 19, 2017: A mob lynched four Muslim cattle traders in Saraikelka Kharswan, accusing them of being child traffickers.

June 29, 2017: A 100-strong mob lynched a 55-year-old Muslim trader, on suspicion that he was carrying beef in his car, at Bazartand in Ramgarh town. The mob also set ablaze Ansari’s Maruti van after killing him September 2, 2017: An angry mob set ablaze three houses belonging to a Muslim man who allegedly slaughtered cows on Bakr-Id (Eid ul-Adha) in Jharkhand’s Giridh district.