Ranchi, Mar 19: Two Muslim men herding eight buffaloes on their way to a local Friday market were bashed up and hanged to death from a tree by unknown assailants at Balumath forests in Latehar district, 100km from here, in the wee hours on Friday. The buffaloes were freed by the men and locals claimed the assailants were Hindutva radicals.
The deceased Muhammad Majloom, 35, was a relative of Azad Khan alias Ibrahim who is around 15-years-old. The two had their hands tied together behind and their mouth was closed with a cloth. "The sight suggested that the two of them were subjected to extreme levels of brutality. It means that the assailants were moved by extreme hatred," a police officer said.
In Jhabbar village of Balumath the sight of the hanging men engaged in cattle trade, sparked protests by locals. The protests turned violent when police tried to take down the bodies. SDO Kamleshwar Narayan and six cops were injured when locals pelted stones at officials who arrived in the morning to manage the situation and ensure that it does not take communal turn.
Injuries to senior officials forced police to resort to firing and baton charge. "The policemen resorted to air firing, but it did not hurt anyone," Latehar SP Anoop Birthary said.
According to sources protesting locals claimed that the assailants targeted them because they were engaged in cattle trade. "Four months ago a group of men had tried to kill a cattle trader in Gomia village of Balumath. The man managed to escape," Latehar MLA Prakash Ram said.
Locals blocked Latehar-Chatra National Highway 99 for hours. They demanded immediate arrest of the assailants and refused to clear the blockade unless the criminals were arrested and hanged to death.
A large number of armed forces were deployed in the village to thwart possible villagers' attempts to create communal disturbance. "A meeting of the peace committee was held in the evening to develop a climate of calm in the area," DIG Saket Singh said. The police were asked to check rumor mongers and locals were appealed not to monger rumours.
The investigation into the murder has not progressed much. An FIR was lodged against unknown for murder and another FIR was lodged against unknown persons and a few known locals for hurting the SDO and other officials. "It is not yet known if business enmity or other motive was behind the murder," SP Birthary said.
Welcoming the move Dr Arathi Krishna told coastaldigst.com that Indians stranded in any foreign country can utilize this facility. "Initially, I was approached by Mr Zakaria and Mr Sheik who wanted chartered flights to help their employees fly back to India. I asked them to write to the Indian Ambassador in Saudi Araia Mr Ausaf Sayeed. Then I requested the ambassador to forward the request to Joint Secretary Dr Nagendra Prasad, who is in charge of gulf division in the Ministry of External Affairs, and then to Secretary on charge of Gulf and then I requested Secretary of Economic Relations Mr T S Tirumurti who was also in charge of Gulf to follow this up," she said.
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If Muslims respect Hindu feelings none of this would happen. I don't blame the people who did this. You are crying hoarse now - you are the same lot who would not hesitate to kill if someone drew Mohamed
Asif we don't give damn for this ...do u guys show sympathy to our soldiers when they die fighting Islamic Muslim millitabts in Kashmir? No right ..so better mind ur business...of course I am communal ..and ultra fanatic ...its not a new thing ...we don't want a certificate from a Muslim .communal okay mama ..but terrorism not okay ...u take it or leave it 99.99% terrorists are from ur own community ...as per latest report conducted by CIA ..45% households of one particular community is at most extremist and supports terrorism...namma guru trump helta avne maama ..if possible check it.
Ley mullah ...haha..muthrapathi ..neenu frustration estu agidya anta gothaithu ...RSS chaddi galanna hate maado baradalli chaddi haakade tirugutha iro tirboki nan maga neenu ...first haaku mama ..pant haakana ..Bermuda bekadu haakana. ..haha...
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Mr. naren
By the comments itself we can makout how communal minded you are, at the same time how “manda buddhi you are”. As you mention they subside. C the picture there hand tied. And one thing I don’t understand when onwards buffalo is become your father, what a stupid creatures man, shame on you man, first try to be a human.
These crimes wont stop unless the ruthless murderers are given capital punishment openly the barbaric mob knows they can get away with anything & everything in the name of religion we were better & united under british rule slavery under btitish rule is better than this hatred freedom....
Muslims always want one or the other controversy to irritate survashakthimaan shri Shri modiji...looking at the picture itself we can make out its suicide ...not a loss for nation as they are thieves ...we shud bother about Indians who say bharat mata ki jai...not for Pakistanis ...pappu will go and announce compensation as it is his vote bank ...we must humanity to humans. ..not for cattle killers ...CD again proved it has lost sense as it is presuming it was done by sangh parivar ....
Is there any ONE indian minister or the chief minister who can show to the indians how to deal with these culprits who play with the life given by the CREATOR who will call them to account on their deeds in this life.
Read report carefully. police focusing more on how to curb the protest by villagers and not to arrest the culprits.
Hindutva extremists??? Editor is mad.
Might be thieves. No one will kill innocents.
Shocking. Who the hell speaking of \intolerance\"??? This is not intolerance. This is racist violence and height of terrorism.."
MODHI JI AB KI BAAR KATHARNAAK SARKAAR U HAVE DONE IT ...
This is so cruel, this is happening only in india and burma. this kind of terrorism should be stopped need to send the culprit into jail and sentence death penalty.
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