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| Aftermath of incident: family in Bishra Village Dadri UP |
Spreading rumors in the area about a family 'storing and
consuming beef' was announced through the microphone of temple; a mob of 100
people targeted the home.
Mohammed Akhlaq, 50, was beaten to death and during the
attack his son, Danish,22, was severely injured this Monday night at village Bisara in Dadri UP.
Kiran S. the Senior Superintendent of Police, Gautam Budh
Nagar, told, “Preliminary investigation revealed that an announcement about the
family 'storing and eating the beef' was made by using the microphone and
speaker from a temple.”
Sajida,18, Akhlaq daughter narrating the event and told,
“ a group of 100 people from the village” stood in front of my house that
night.
Sajida said, “They accused us of keeping cow meat;
breaking the door they trespassed into house; and started beating my father and
the brother. My father was dragged outside the house and beaten with bricks. We
came to know later that an announcement had been made from the temple about our
family eating beef.”
Kiran said, “We have been told that a group of people
entered the temple and used a microphone and the speaker to make the
announcement. We have collected meat samples from Akhlaq house and sent it to
the forensics department for lab examination.”
The BJP leaders
from Uttar Pradesh suggested that if there was beef in the house, the victim
was at fault. They also said the accused should be charged with culpable
homicide and not murder, threatened to hold Mahapanchayat in Bisara village if
their demands are not met.
The president of Rihai Manch Muhammad Shueb said, " a
few of over 100 communal people announced that the local resident Akhlaq eat
beef using microphone in a temple at Dadri; by the way they attacked on a
family; and killed Akhlaq,50, by using
bricks beating." shows the communal politics has made the people
murderer.
RSS has so much pressurized, "that any so-called
secular parties, condemning the event by visiting the spot, do not want to
offend their Hindu vote."
Indicating
the invocation of the stern law, Uttar Pradesh Principal Home Secretary
Debashish Panda said, "This was no ordinary killing and therefore merits
the use of the strictest laws so that others are deterred from indulging in
such acts in future."
Meanwhile,
the local administration in Noida, under whose jurisdiction Dadri falls, have
also confirmed that the meat stored in Akhlaq’s home was simply mutton and not
beef as had been claimed by his murderers.
"We have
got the meat samples picked up from Akhlaq’s fridge tested by our animal
husbandry department experts who said quite affirmatively that it was not beef
at all," Noida district magistrate N P Singh told on telephone.
