Mandsaur(Madhya Pradesh): Two Muslim women passengers were beaten up mercilessly for half an hour by self-appointed cow protectors at Mandsaur Railway station in Madhya Pradesh.
The police arrived on the scene but the women were kicked and thrashed for half an hour.
The assailants alleged that the women were carrying beef but the veterinary doctor and the state home minister of Madhya Pradesh confirmed that it was not beef but buffalo meat.
However, a case has been slapped on the assaulted women because they did not have a permit to sell meat.
A mobile phone video taken by one of the spectators has gone viral on the internet and the issue rocked the Upper House of the Indian Parliament on Wednesday. Members ran towards the we ll of the house after BSP leader raised the issue and BJP made feeble attempt to explain matters.
The BJP led government at the Centre has been put under pressure in the parliament due to the highhandedness of hooligans in many states who style themselves as ‘cow protectors’.
Cow vigilantism has snatched up headlines and political attention in the past few weeks after national outrage over a
The video of four Dalit youths being flogged, tied to an SUV and paraded for skinning a dead cow in Una in Gujarat earlier this month had rocked the nation and disturbed the Dalits and backward communities.
