A man was beaten to death while another injured by cow vigilantes in Maharashtra’s Nashik district.
The group of vigilantes carried out the gruesome act on a mere suspicion of smuggling beef in Nashik, the reports said.
The victim was identified as Afan Ansari - the 32-year-old from Mumbai's Kurla - along with his aide Nasir Sheikh was transporting meat in a car when they were allegedly intercepted and thrashed by cow vigilantes, said NDTV report.
The victims were later admitted to a hospital where one person died during treatment, the reports said.
"On reaching the spot, we found the car in a damaged condition. The injured men were inside the car and we admitted them to a nearby hospital where one of them died," NDTV report quoted police official as having said..
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It also mentioned that ten people so far have been detained in the case.
The police have registered a case of murder and rioting, the reports said.
“Whether they were indeed transporting beef or not will be known only after the lab report comes,” they added.
Maharashtra government earlier approved a proposal to set up a commission to implement the law banning the slaughter of cows, eight years after the Bombay High Court upheld the validity of the Act banning cattle slaughter.
The court said that a competent authority could enter, stop, and search any vehicle used for the export of a cow, bull or bullock and seize it.
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It also upheld the prohibition on transporting flesh for the purpose of slaughter.
