According to the FIR registered at the Badhra police station in Charkhi Dadr, Sabir along with another migrant worker from Assam named Asiruddin were called by the attackers to the local bus stand on the pretext of disposing some scrap.“On the morning of August 27, a group of young men came to Sabir, a rag picker, living in a slum area near Badhra village, and took him to the local bus stand, claiming that they had some scrap to dispose of. The cow vigilantes also called another person named Asiruddin, a rag picker to the bus stand,” the FIR detailed.“The cow vigilantes started mercilessly beating up the two rag pickers. When the passers-by intervened, the criminals took the victims to some other location on their motorcycles,” it said.According to police, 26-year-old Sabir’s dead body was later found near a canal in Bhandwa village while an unconscious Asiruddin was found dumped at another location.Charkhi Dadri Superintendent of Police Ms Pooja Vashisth confirmed that the attackers unleashed the brutality on the Muslim men merely because they thought that the two had consumed beef. Distressing enough, two of the accused nabbed by the police are juveniles.”So far five persons namely Abhishek, Ravinder, Mohit, Kamaljeet, and Sahil have been arrested and two of them are juveniles,” Vashisth told media.However, Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini’s response to the killing was: Villagers revere the cow and if they sense some untoward situation, then “who could stop them?”He further stressed that there is no compromise on “cow protection.””It is not right to say things like mob lynching, because a strict law has been made in the Assembly for cow protection and there is no compromise on it,” he said.”I want to say that such incidents should not happen and these incidents are unfortunate,” he plainly added.
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