Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi wants the Jharkhand government to take strong action against the people, who brutally attacked a man accused of carrying beef in Ramgarh district on June 29, hours after PM Narendra Modi said that killing people in the name of cow protection is unacceptable.
“We condemn such brutality,” said Naqvi to The Week. “Our advice to all state governments is not to spare these perpetrators. Strong action should be taken against them. But I also appeal to the people and the media to not turn criminal incidents into communal incidents. Let us not bring religious angle to it.”
A mob—close to 100 people—in Ramgarh lynched 45-year-old Mohammed Alimuddin on the suspicion of carrying beef in his car. They set ablaze his car. Alimuddin died minutes after he was admitted to the hospital by the police.
Earlier at a function in Sabarmati Ashram in Gujarat, PM Modi warned cow vigilantes. He said no person in the country has the right to take the law into their hands. “We are a land of non-violence. We are the land of Mahatma Gandhi. Why do we forget that?” asked the prime minister.
Senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram said that lynch mobs in the country don’t fear Modi.
