Two Muslim women badly beaten over beef rumours in India

Mandsaur Superintendent of Police Manoj Sharma said they received a call from a person yesterday stating that two women were being manhandled by people on suspicion of carrying beef at the railway station.

In a video recorded by a spectator, the mob is chanting “Gau mata ki jai”, cornering the two women.

The video shows women being kicked, slapped and abused by a mob.

Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said cows should be protected but Muslims and Dalits should not be targeted in the name of cow protection.

Singh informed that two more women were arrested yesterday for reportedly carrying beef, adding that women are being used to distribute meat at different locations. Local doctors who examined the meat, said it was from buffalo.

The women have been charged by the police, because they did not have a permit to sell meat.

However, no action has been taken against the mob that beat up the women, or the policemen who failed to stop the attack. On the other hand, none of the cow vigilantes have been arrested yet for physically assulting the women.

Recently, four men from a lower-caste community were also beaten for skinning a dead cow.

The Madhya Pradesh government has taken action in the said case and registered a case, said Naqvi. Last month, Haryana Education Minister and RSS activist, Ram Bilas Sharma, went as far as defending the actions of these groups by saying, “The Hindu society has huge reverence for the cow”.

Soon the protesting members took to the Well of the House, raising slogans against the government.

Many opposition members in Rajya Sabha stormed the well today qustioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “silence” over violence against Dalits and Muslims by alleged Gao Rakshak, the cow vigilantes. The minister also said the opposition members should “rise above politics” on such issues.