J&Okay man ‘returning home with buffalo’ lynched, locals blame cow vigilantes

A 24-year-old returning house with a buffalo in Thanamandi space of Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri was crushed by a gaggle of individuals, resulting in his demise, whereas two others escaped with accidents, triggering stress within the space.
Protesters blamed ‘cow vigilantes’ for sufferer Aijaz Dar’s demise. Police stated 4 of the accused had been recognized; all of them are absconding nonetheless.
Protesters stated Dar was the one incomes member of his household, which has his ailing father and three sisters.
Alleging that “cow vigilantes” had been behind Dar’s homicide, a number of native residents later gathered outdoors the workplace of Rajouri Deputy Commissioner in protest, demanding arrest of the accused and invoking Public Safety Act on them. They stated that Dar and two others had been on means house after buying a buffalo from Laam facet close to Nowshera, and after they reached an remoted place at Muradpur, close to Rajouri city, the alleged cow vigilantes attacked them with stones and sticks.

Injured, the three had been taken to Government Medical College Hospital in Jammu, the place Aijaz succumbed to accidents, it was knowledgeable. The situation of the opposite two is reported to be steady.
Deputy Inspector General of Police, Rajouri-Poonch vary, Vivek Gupta, together with the Deputy Commissioner and the SSP pacified the protestors with assurance that the accused individuals named shall be arrested. Four of the accused have been recognized and particular groups have been shaped to nab them on the earliest, a senior police officer stated.

The homicide led to widespread condemnation from folks within the space. Calling for extreme punishment for the accused, social activist and spokesperson of Gujjar Bakarwal Youth Welfare Conference, Guftar Choudhary, tweeted, “…Only bread earner of a poor family killed by goons last night while he was going back home with a buffalo. How many families will become victim of lynching.”