FOUR ARRESTED FOR THRASHING MEAT-SELLER IN MORADABAD
MEERUT : Police have arrested four of the six people accused of thrashing a meat-seller at Gott village under the Katghar police station limits of Moradabad district in western Uttar Pradesh, an official said on Monday.
A video of the incident had gone viral on the social media on Sunday. The video clip had shown a group of self-styled gau rakshaks (cow protection vigilantes) catching hold of meatseller and transporter Mohd Shakir, along with meat and assaulting him.
The police also lodged a case against Mohd Shakir on the charges of doing mischief by killing an animal and committing an act which is likely to spread infection and cause violation of the partial corona curfew.
Moradabad’s superintendent
of police (City) Amit Kunar Anand said four of the named accused were arrested and raids were being conducted to arrest the main accused, identified as Manoj Thakur along with another person. Thakur is said to be the national vice president of Gau Raksha Vahini, a cow protection vigilante group.
“We would arrest them soon,” said Anand. When asked whether Thakur was an office bearer of Gau Raksha Vahini, Gajendra Singh, the station house officer of Katghar police station, said, “The case is under investigation and don’t know much about it.” The SP said that the case was registered against six people on the complaint of the victim Mohd Shakir’s brother Zakir. About the case against Mohd Shakir, the SP denied it was a counter case.
“Approximately 50 kg meat was recovered from him, and he failed to show any valid document for the purchase of meat,” Anand said. The case against the six people accused of assaulting
Shakir was registered under Indian Penal Code sections 147 (rioting) 148 (Rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 149 (Every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object), 389 (putting person in fear of accusation of offence, in order to commit extortion), 386 (Extortion by putting a person in fear of death or grievous hurt), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 506 (criminal intimidation). The FIR was lodged at the Katghar police station.