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*India's Beef Ban Turns Bloody, Consumes A Man's Life* *By Countercurrents.org* 30 September, 2015 *Countercurrents.org* *Family of Mohammad Akhlaq mourn in Dadri after a mob allegedly killedhim over ‘rumours’ of eating beef on Tuesday (Express Photo <http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/next-door-to-delhi-mob-kills-50-year-old-injures-son-over-rumours-they-ate-beef/> by: Gajendra Yadav) * *A* fifty year old Muslim man was beaten to death, and critically injured his 22 year old son by a mob of about 100 people alleging that the family ate beef in the house, in a bizarre incident near the capital city of India, New Delhi. The Indian Express reported that the incident took place on Monday night at around 10 PM in Dadri village, North Western Uttar Pradesh (UP), around 45 km from New Delhi. The Indian Express *reported* <http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/next-door-to-delhi-mob-kills-50-year-old-injures-son-over-rumours-they-ate-beef/> : According to Sajida, Akhlaq’s 18-year-old daughter who was in the house when the attack took place, “a group of more than 100 people from the village” reached the house that night. “They accused us of keeping cow meat, broke down our doors and started beating my father and brother. My father was dragged outside the house and beaten with bricks. We came to know later that an announcement had been made from the temple about us eating beef,” said Sajida. Police said they have sent samples of meat taken from Akhlaq’s home “to the forensics department for examination”. Akhlaq’s daughter, Sajida, said the family had “mutton in the fridge” and not beef. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Gautam Buddh Nagar, Kiran S, said “preliminary investigations revealed that an announcement was made from the temple” about the family consuming beef. “The priest was picked for questioning as we need to investigate the involvement of others in the case,” said Kiran. According to the SSP, a case of rioting and murder has been registered against 10 people. “Six of them have been arrested — Rupendra, Vivek, Sri Om, Sandeep, Saurav and Gaurav — all residents of Bisara village,” the police officer said. “We have been told that a group of people entered the temple and used a microphone to make the announcement. However, investigations are still underway. We do not know if any of the accused are associated with the temple. We have collected meat samples from Akhlaq’s house and sent it to the forensics department for examination,” said Kiran. Mohammad Akhlaq is a farm worker and his son,Danish, is a welder who works for the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) facility in the area. Danish was admitted to a government hospital where doctors described his condition as “critical”. However, as news of the arrests spread, residents from Bisara and neighbouring villages held demonstrations and clashed with police near the NTPC facility, damaging vehicles, including a police van, and burning a motorcycle. When police resorted to firing, Rahul Yadav, who works as a welder at NTPC, received a bullet injury near his abdomen. The action from the part of the police was even more bizarre and murky when they sent the meat captured from the dead man's house for forensic examination. It was like putting the blame on the victims, a usual fascist strategy. Sajida, the dead man's daughter says that the meat the police took away frome their refrigerator was mutton. "If the results prove that it was not beef, will they bring back my dead father?” *She asks* <http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/lucknow/in-dadri-a-daughter-asks-if-its-not-beef-will-they-bring-back-my-dead-father/> . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
