Five peole thrashed in Aligarh for slaughtering buffalo

Aligarh, May 12

Cow vigilantes beat up five people they claimed had illegally slaughtered a buffalo inside the premises of a private dairy in Gandhi Park area here, police said.

Police said the owner of the dairy, Kalu Baghel, was operating from his compound in Panna Ganj locality. After a buffalo had stopped yielding milk, he decided to sell it.

Imran, a cattle trader, offered to buy the buffalo provided the dairy owner gave allowed him to slaughter the animal on the premises of the dairy.

A group of five people — four butchers along with Imran — were in the middle of slaughtering the buffalo when the blood of the animal oozed out of the gates of the dairy and was spotted by some bystanders.

Alarmed by the sight of blood, some people forcibly entered the premises. By then, a huge crowd of protesters had gathered and beat up the five, police said.

Later police managed to control the situation before it went out of hand.

The police have arrested the five people along with the owner of the dairy for illegal slaughter. However, no case has been registered against the assaulters.

Station Officer in-charge, Gandhi Park police station, said investigations are ongoing.

There has been a spike in the cases of cow vigilantism in the country recently with many such incidents reported in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Gujarat. — PTI