Cow Slaughtering: Four Including A Bajrang Dal Leader Arrested In Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh Police on Wednesday arrested four persons for allegedly slaughtering cows to implicate a Muslim man in a fabricated case. The arrested included the Moradabad district president of Bajrang Dal, Monu Bishnoi alias Sumit, Shahabuddin and his two volunteers – Raman Chaudhary and Rajiv Chaudhary.
The police exposed the entire conspiracy by the accused. The accused gang slaughtered the cow at two different places in 15 days, and the intention behind the conspiracy was to avenge a man named Maksood. The accused left the details regarding Maksood such as his photo and name at the slaughtered place to appear that Maksood committed the crime.
On January 16, police recovered the head of a cow from Kanwar Path, a road that is mostly used by Hindu pilgrims, following which a case was also registered against unknown people. However, the gang, thinking that the police did not take action committed another slaughter. It took place a few kilometres away in Chetrampur village. The manner of the two incidents raised suspicion in the police and they smelled some plan behind the act. When the officers reached the spot, they found a man’s trousers and a wallet with a photo of Maksood in it.
It was the following integration of Maksood that the police got the picture. Maksood revealed the enmity that some people in the villages have with him. The police found that it was a trap to send Maksood to jail.
“First they planned the January 14 incident in which they gave Rs 2,000 to Naeem, an associate of Shahabuddin, and told him to bring the head of the cow from somewhere and keep it in the Chhajlait police station area, so that action would be taken against the police and the police come under their pressure. He told Shahabuddin and Jamshed to take the names of those with whom they had enmity. In order to do this, evidence was created by placing the photo of that person at the spot. These same people stole a cow from a house, slaughtered it and then informed the police,” Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Hemraj Meena said.
The SSP said that the police used electronic surveillance such as location to prove the case and further added that the arrested people had criminal tendencies.
