‘Who can stop them?’ CM Saini on Charkhi Dadri mob lynching

Chandigarh, August 31

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Reacting to the Charkhi Dadri lynching case, Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini today said people in Haryana revere the cow, and if they sense some untoward situation then “who can stop them?”

No compromise on cow protection

It is not the right thing to say things like mob lynching as a strict law has been passed by the Haryana Assembly for cow protection. There is no compromise on it… Such incidents shouldn’t happen and these are unfortunate.

— Nayab Singh Saini, CM

However, he condemned the incident, saying such unfortunate events should not happen and urged the people not to get involved in such incidents. He was reacting to the arrest of seven cow vigilantes, including two minors, on the charges of lynching a man from West Bengal on the suspicion that he had consumed beef.

“It is not the right thing to say things like mob lynching as a strict law has been passed by the Haryana Assembly for cow protection. There is no compromise on it… I want to say that such incidents should not happen and these are unfortunate,” Saini said at a press conference here.

The Haryana Police yesterday arrested seven persons, including two minors, associated with the Gau Raksha Dal, in the case of murder of a migrant in Badhra in Charkhi Dadri district. The arrested accused had beaten up the victim — Saabir Malik — on the suspicion of eating beef.