Madhya Pradesh: Houses of two men accused of cow slaughter bulldozed

The authorities in Madhya Pradesh’s Morena district on Wednesday bulldozed the homes of two men accused of cow slaughter, reported ANI.

The police claimed that the homes were illegal and built without permission.

There are no provisions in Indian law that allow for the demolition of property as a punitive measure, but the practice has become commonplace in Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states.

The allegations of cow slaughter were made on Friday by a man named Anipal Gurjar.

In a police complaint, Gurjar claimed that he had seen a few persons slaughtering a cow in the Bengali colony area of Morena’s Noorabad village, reported PTI quoting Sub-Divisional Officer of Police Adarsh Shukla. Gurjar was allegedly attacked when he objected and tried to intervene, Shukla added.

On Friday evening, the police searched the house where the alleged slaughter took place, The Indian Express reported.

Shukla said that the police had seized a cow skin and two sacks of bones and beef from the house, PTI reported. He said that six persons, including two women, had been arrested in the case. A minor had also been detained in connection with the incident.

On Saturday, two men among the accused persons, Asgar and Retua, were booked under the National Security Act and sent to jail, Additional Superintendent of Police Arvind Thakur said, according to the news...

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