Two men arrested after mob of 20 lynched 2 men for stealing cows

[shian]

[quote]Two persons have been arrested for the alleged lynching of two suspected cattle thieves in central Assam’s Nagaon district, PTI reported.
On Sunday, Abu Hanifa and Riazuddin Ali were beaten to death by some villagers alleging that they were stealing two cows from the grazing field in Kasomari. The police team on reaching the spot took them to hospital where they succumbed to their injuries, District Superintendent of Police Debaraj Upadhay had informed.
The police on Monday did not term the incident as a case of ‘cow vigilantism’.
“We have picked up two persons in this connection and after investigation as to whether they were involved in yesterday’s lynching incident, we will arrest them,” PTI quoted Upadhyay as saying.
The incident was an outcome of “mob fury leading to the brutal killing of the two persons suspected to be cattle thieves”, he said.
The SP added there was no communal angle to the incident.[/quote]

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[aznz888]

considering how sacred and valuable cows are in india, i'm not that surprised. however, vigilantism is almost [I]always[/I] a bad thing, because you're now giving the power of verdict to an angry mob.

[llamalords]

Imagine you and your neighbors just going fucking savage on two dudes for stealing your property, I even can't imagine because I own nothing that could potentially starve my family if it was stolen.

[Zonesylvania]

Cow protection vigilantism has only become a serious problem recently, with this right wing government in power that looks the other way most times somebody beats up or kills somebody who allegedly slaughters or trades in cattle. We've had many articles and op-eds in the papers about why government silence in the majority of these instances encourages fringe lunatics to carry on with this shit.

In fact, just last month, an idiot of a minister in one of our northern states said 'I will personally kill anybody who disrespects or slaughters mother cow.' We could do with less of these religious fanatics.