Aligarh: Bajrangi mob sets vehicle ablaze, sends 4 to hospital in cow vigilantism case

Four people were attacked and their vehicle set ablaze by a mob in Aligarh on Saturday, 24 May, over suspicion that they were transporting cattle meat, police said.

Local leaders of the Bajrang Dal claimed that this was the same vehicle the villagers had intercepted a fortnight ago with similar "illegal meat". However, police had released it, saying it was buffalo meat.

According to officials, an enraged mob stopped the vehicle, thrashed the four occupants and caused severe damage to the vehicle.

Superintendent of police (rural) Amrit Jain said a police team reached the spot, rescued the four people and rushed them to a hospital.

On May 24, in Harduaganj, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, Hindutva extremists from the Hindutva terror organisation Bajrang Dal, along with other villagers, brutally assaulted 4 Muslim men who were transporting meat from a factory to their store, alleging it was beef. pic.twitter.com/Q9Ap8U1dt5

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"The meat has been seized and sent for laboratory testing. A case has been registered and a thorough investigation will be conducted to determine the facts," Jain said.

He clarified that the earlier incident involving the same vehicle two weeks ago had been closed after lab tests confirmed that the meat was buffalo.

He also noted that the transporter's documents, including those for cattle slaughter, were in order at that time.

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