According to a police spokesman, the Indian police have detained three persons in the eastern part of the state of Bihar in connection with the killing of a Muslim man who was attacked because he was accused of having beef. The victim was killed. The victim, Naseem Qureshi, 56, passed away earlier this week after being beaten by a crowd on the assumption that he was carrying beef. The sale and eating of beef is forbidden by local governments in certain regions of the nation.
According to a statement made by police and presented in court, Qureshi was reportedly attacked after being encircled by more than 20 individuals. According to the statement, police were able to intervene, but he passed away while being transported to the hospital. On Saturday, Ramchandra Tiwari, the chief of the Rasulpur police station in Bihar, which is located in the area where the crime took place, confirmed by phone to the reporters of news agency that three persons had been detained. Those who are suspected of slaughtering cows for their flesh or leather are mostly members of India’s Muslim minority or individuals who are lower on India’s old caste system. As cows are considered sacred in the Hindu religion, there have been several attacks on those who are accused of doing so. Conservative Hindu organizations have been pushing for a blanket prohibition on cow slaughter across the entirety of India.
After the election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist administration in 2014, so-called Hindu cow vigilante organizations have taken it upon themselves to police their own communities and enforce the law. The Bharatiya Janata Party, which is led by Modi, is now in the opposition in the state of Bihar, which is currently controlled by a regional party.
