In light of a recent attack on a student beef supporter, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) working President MK Stalin lead a protest against Centre’s decision on the ban today in Chennai.
A Ph.D. scholar at IIT Madras, R Sooraj was brutally attacked because he admitted to participating in a Beef Fest held at the campus on Sunday. The beef fest was celebrated to condemn BJP’s ban on cow slaughter all over the country.
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Sooraj suffered a fractured hand and an injured eye. One of the students in the group of eight who beat Sooraj was a member of a right-wing organization.
There have been several cases of violence due to beef consumption and its subsequent ban. Cow vigilantes take matters into their own hands and incite mob violence, as seen from some previous instances:
• 28 September 2015 – 52-year old Mohammad Akhlaq and his son Danish were lynched by a mob in Dadri, Uttar Pradesh for alleged consumption of beef despite the family insisting that it was mutton (and not cow).
• 18 March 2016 - Two Muslim cattle traders, Mazlum Ansari and Imteyaz Khan, were lynched by a mob in Jharkhand. They were found dead hanging upside down on a tree.
• 26 May 2016 – Three young men were beaten up for alleged possession of beef by cow vigilantes at Rajora in Maharashtra.
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Is violence the only solution to differing religious and social sentiments?
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