Rajasthan Cow Vigilante Attack

BJP's Alwar unit says these are "his own views" and "the party does not have this thinking" but Gyan Dev Ahuja defends his stance

More than two years after a mob was caught on camera beating dairy farmer Pehlu Khan to death, a court in Rajasthan has acquitted six of the men seen in a video of the attack that was one of the key evidences of the prosecution.

BJP chief Amit Shah today expressed confidence that the party will win the coming elections in Rajasthan, which has witnessed a string of attacks by cow vigilantes over more than a year. Pointing to the lynching in Dadri -- the first of many across the country --- he said the party won that time too.

In the middle of a huge backlash over the death of a man attacked by cow vigilantes in Rajasthan, four men transporting a dead buffalo were assaulted by a mob in Uttar Pradesh in the early hours today.

A man attacked by a mob of cow vigilantes in Rajasthan's Alwar on Friday had died in police custody, the state home minister said today, after NDTV reported that the police had taken the critically wounded man to hospital after a three-hour delay. The government says it will order a judicial inquiry into the matter.

Days after a man was allegedly beaten to death by cow vigilantes in Alwar, a BJP legislator has accused people from the victim's Meo community of being involved in crime in the district and said he had already banned them from his office.

The man attacked by a mob of cow vigilantes in Rajasthan's Alwar died of shock after suffering injuries all over his body from a "blunt weapon or object", a post-mortem report has said.

A photograph of Rakbar Khan -- the man who died in Rajasthan's Alwar allegedly after being beaten up by cow vigilantes -- sitting upright inside a police car has raised further questions about the role of the police in the attack.

One of the policemen accused of taking three hours to take a critically wounded mob attack victim to hospital in Rajasthan's Alwar on Friday admitted today to the inexplicable delay and said, "I made a mistake". No action has been taken against him till now. Rakbar Khan and his friend Aslam were attacked late at night when they were walking with tw...

Seven months after dairy owner Pehlu Khan was beaten to death in Rajasthan's Alwar, the police are investigating allegations that another Muslim was killed by cow vigilantes on Friday. One person has been detained for the murder of Ummar Khan, whose body was found with gunshot wounds on rail tracks.

The family of a man, whose body was found on rail tracks in Rajasthan's Alwar -- where a man had been beaten to death earlier this year by cow vigilantes -- has claimed that he, too had been killed by another such group.

A farmer in Rajasthan's Alwar - where a man had been beaten to death earlier this year by cow vigilantes -- has alleged that his milch cows, 51 of them

Pehlu Khan's son Irshad Khan is preparing to fight two legal battles. He always knew he had to fight off a case for cow smuggling slapped on him by the police after his 55-year-old father was killed by cow vigilantes on the national highway in Rajasthan's Alwar this April. After the Rajasthan police's clean chit to the six men identified by his fat...

The son of Pehlu Khan, a 55-year-old dairy farmer who was lynched by cow vigilantes in Rajasthan in April this year, has said he will appeal in court against the state police's decision to remove the names of six men as suspects in his father's murder.

A group of officials from Tamil Nadu were attacked on the highway in Rajasthan last night by a mob of around 50 people, while they were taking cows they had bought in Jaisalmer to the state for a Central breeding programme.

BJP's Alwar unit says these are "his own views" and "the party does not have this thinking" but Gyan Dev Ahuja defends his stance

More than two years after a mob was caught on camera beating dairy farmer Pehlu Khan to death, a court in Rajasthan has acquitted six of the men seen in a video of the attack that was one of the key evidences of the prosecution.

BJP chief Amit Shah today expressed confidence that the party will win the coming elections in Rajasthan, which has witnessed a string of attacks by cow vigilantes over more than a year. Pointing to the lynching in Dadri -- the first of many across the country --- he said the party won that time too.

In the middle of a huge backlash over the death of a man attacked by cow vigilantes in Rajasthan, four men transporting a dead buffalo were assaulted by a mob in Uttar Pradesh in the early hours today.

A man attacked by a mob of cow vigilantes in Rajasthan's Alwar on Friday had died in police custody, the state home minister said today, after NDTV reported that the police had taken the critically wounded man to hospital after a three-hour delay. The government says it will order a judicial inquiry into the matter.

Days after a man was allegedly beaten to death by cow vigilantes in Alwar, a BJP legislator has accused people from the victim's Meo community of being involved in crime in the district and said he had already banned them from his office.

The man attacked by a mob of cow vigilantes in Rajasthan's Alwar died of shock after suffering injuries all over his body from a "blunt weapon or object", a post-mortem report has said.

A photograph of Rakbar Khan -- the man who died in Rajasthan's Alwar allegedly after being beaten up by cow vigilantes -- sitting upright inside a police car has raised further questions about the role of the police in the attack.

One of the policemen accused of taking three hours to take a critically wounded mob attack victim to hospital in Rajasthan's Alwar on Friday admitted today to the inexplicable delay and said, "I made a mistake". No action has been taken against him till now. Rakbar Khan and his friend Aslam were attacked late at night when they were walking with tw...

Seven months after dairy owner Pehlu Khan was beaten to death in Rajasthan's Alwar, the police are investigating allegations that another Muslim was killed by cow vigilantes on Friday. One person has been detained for the murder of Ummar Khan, whose body was found with gunshot wounds on rail tracks.

The family of a man, whose body was found on rail tracks in Rajasthan's Alwar -- where a man had been beaten to death earlier this year by cow vigilantes -- has claimed that he, too had been killed by another such group.

A farmer in Rajasthan's Alwar - where a man had been beaten to death earlier this year by cow vigilantes -- has alleged that his milch cows, 51 of them

Pehlu Khan's son Irshad Khan is preparing to fight two legal battles. He always knew he had to fight off a case for cow smuggling slapped on him by the police after his 55-year-old father was killed by cow vigilantes on the national highway in Rajasthan's Alwar this April. After the Rajasthan police's clean chit to the six men identified by his fat...

The son of Pehlu Khan, a 55-year-old dairy farmer who was lynched by cow vigilantes in Rajasthan in April this year, has said he will appeal in court against the state police's decision to remove the names of six men as suspects in his father's murder.

A group of officials from Tamil Nadu were attacked on the highway in Rajasthan last night by a mob of around 50 people, while they were taking cows they had bought in Jaisalmer to the state for a Central breeding programme.