Gujarat: Muslim man killed by cow vigilantes for transporting buffaloes

A Muslim man was killed allegedly by a group of cow vigilantes when he was transporting buffaloes in Gujarat’s Banaskantha district on Thursday, reported The Indian Express.

A minority rights organisation called the killing an instance of “mob lynching”. But the police denied that the crime was of mob lynching.

The police have accused five men of being involved in the killing and have taken two of them in custody.

The man who was killed was identified as Mishrikhan Baloch, a resident of Banaskantha’s Sesan Nava village. On Thursday morning, Mishrikhan, along with another villager named Hussainkhan Hajjibabukhan Baloch, was travelling with two buffaloes to an animal market in the town of Deesa when the tyre of their vehicle got punctured, according to The Times of India.

Hussainkhan told the police that the accused persons approached them in a sports utility vehicle. He said that the accused men, who had an altercation with him in July as well, began abusing him for having filed police complaints against them. The police complaints at that time were also related to a dispute about transporting buffaloes.

Hussainkhan said that when the accused persons began abusing him and threatening to kill him, he and Mishrikhan tried to escape in their vehicle, but the punctured tyre burst....

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