New Delhi: Three people were arrested, on Sunday, in connection with an attack on an auto-rickshaw driver and his friends in Faridabad by a group of cow vigilantes over suspicion that they were carrying beef, police said. Those arrested have been identified as Lakhan, Dileep, and Ram Kumar, a police official said, adding that they were being questioned at the office of the assistant commissioner of police in Mujesar. ACP (Mujesar) Radhshyam said the arrested trio were being quizzed and that the others involved in the case will be arrested soon.
On the morning of October 13, auto-rickshaw driver Azad, along with his four friends, was on his way to Old Faridabad from Fatehpur Billauch when 15-20 men intercepted their vehicle near Bajri village. According to Azad, the group thrashed them and then called up the police. They handed Azad over to the police alleging that he was a cow-smuggler.
A police official said that based on the complaint of the group, initially a case was registered against the auto-rickshaw driver under the laws pertaining to cow slaughter. However, it emerged during the initial probe that it was buffalo meat that Azad and his friends were transporting.
“During initial investigation, it was found that it was buffalo meat and not beef that was being transported. Therefore, a case under relevant sections was registered,” Vinod Singh, the Mujesar police station SHO, said on Saturday.
