Mangaluru, Jun 19: Mohammad Haneef Guddemane, a cattle trader, who was thrashed by the miscreants of Bajrang Dal while legally transporting cattle last weekend, today appeared before media and demanded appropriate action against the assailants.
The attack took place on June 14 at Urwa in the city when he was transporting four buffalos along with all necessary documents. The attack was also captured on a CCTV camp.
The victim, who addressed a press conference today, said that it was not the first time he is transporting cattle as into animal and husbandry for years.
“I had bought 10 she-buffaloes on June 13 from Ranennur and obtained certificate from the local government veterinary doctor after which the animals were brought to my village,” said Haneef, who is a resident of Jokatte on the outskirts of the city.
He said that he was transporting four out of the ten she buffaloes he had bought to the slaughterhouse at Mangaluru on June 14 when a gang of around 15 members which intercepted his vehicles near Urwa police station dragged him out of the vehicle, rained abusive words at him, made blasphemous remarks about his religion, and hit him with a helmet besides kicking him.
He said that three of the assailants were armed with sabre, iron rod and wooden sticks.
"They also tied me to the vehicle and assaulted. They also attacked me with their arms but I escaped. Their plan was to kill me. Fortunately, the police reached the spot and the assailants escaped. However, they thoroughly damaged my vehicle and robbed Rs 7,800 I had with me. I got treated at Highland Hospital in the city," he stated.
Expressing shock over the soft corner approach of the police towards the assailants, he said that only six of around 15 attackers were booked by the police.
“All the accused were let off by the police after registering petty cases. Ironically, the police had not recorded my statement. On the day of attack, they had asked me to sign on a paper. It contained the complaint written by themselves. Hence, on June 17 I visited the Urwa police station and recorded my statement,” he said.
He said that even though he has all the documents pertaining to the cattle that he had purchased, the police had registered false cattle theft charge against him.
Former city mayor K Ashraf, Hyder, bother of the victim and Shamsuddin, Jokatte gram panchayat vice president were present at the press meet.
Also Read: Mangaluru: Bajrang Dal men thrash cattle trader after waylaying buffalo-laden vehicle
The incident led to scuffles with Kashmiri students at Mewar University in Chittorgarh. There are around 800 Kashmiri students on campus.
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Mr. Bopanna Saudi is a Kingdom so the rules and regulation of king should be followed, India is republic country a democrartic country. our constitution doesnot stop from eating beef. This is the self interest of politicians.
will you allow a Hindu to eat pork in Saudi ? Then why try to eat beef in Hindustan ?
what ;;; sending gravy to forensic test? send beja of that goondas to us we will make beja fry. Its Time for muslims to stay united from kashmir to kanyakumari, any one is touched its like they are touching all muslims in india.
The hooligans do not have any other work...... Use AK - 47 at the right time, all dogs will wag their tails.....
this is called Intolerance... we have the rights to eat whatever we want to eat in this freedom country.
As KASHMIR Not in INDIA
we INDIANS are double standards.......we treat KSHMIRI Indians as NON INDIANS....but we claim KASHMIR is is an integral part of INDIA
first clear your stand in Hindu scripture as it is allowed to have Beef....and same time you deny the truth ...what happened to innocent Hindus ....is they blindly follow RSS idealogy
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