A Muslim man was beaten to death on Saturday night allegedly by a group of cow vigilantes (a group or a pattern of mob-based violence, reported in only India against Muslims by Hindutva nationalists in the name of protecting cows) on suspicion of smuggling beef in Nashik district of Maharashtra.
The deceased was identified as Afan Ansari, 32-year-old from Mumbai’s Kurla – along with his aide Nasir Sheikh.
They was transporting meat in a car when they were allegedly intercepted and thrashed by cow vigilantes. Both of them were admitted to a hospital where one person died during treatment, police said.
"On reaching the spot, we found the car in a damaged condition. The injured men were inside the car and we admitted them to a nearby hospital where one of them died," said sub-inspector Sunil Bhamre.
The police have detained ten people so far in the case, he said.
The fresh killing comes a day after India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said “when you talk of democracy, if there are no human values and there is no humanity, there are no human rights, then it’s not a democracy” in US during an official state visit with President Joe Biden.
Mr Modi was responding to a direct question who asked him that the Modi government has discriminated against religious minorities and sought to silence its critics.
