In growing in tolerant India under Narendra Modi, a Hindutva mob lynched one Muslim man and injured another in the Maharashtra state on the charge of carrying beef in their van.
Two men were brutally beaten up by a mob in Maharashtra’s Nashik for allegedly carrying beef in their car, Maharashtra Police said on Monday.
One of them later died due to the injuries sustained in the attack.
Nasir Shaikh and Afan Abdul Majeed Ansari were travelling to Mumbai when they were on the Sinnar Ghoti Highway, their car was stopped by a group of people for inspection.
The group allegedly found beef in the car during the inspection. Around 15 people then attacked the two with iron rods and sticks, causing serious injuries, the police said.
They were later taken to a hospital where Afan Abdul Majeed Ansari succumbed to his injuries.
In a similar incident in March, a 56-year-old Muslim was lynched in Bihar’s Saran district on the suspicion that he was carrying beef.
Meanwhile, a man has slit a throat of person and consumed the spilled blood in Karnataka state’s Chikkaballapur district. The video of the incident has gone viral across all social media platforms.
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