Five arrested for brutally attacking cow vigilante on Eid in Maharashtra's Nanded

Ar incident has been reported from Nanded District of Maharashtra where a cow vigilante was thrashed by a group of people 

Sonu Choudhary a cow vigilante got a tip-off that on occasion of Bakra Eid, two bulls are being brought to slaughter at Mahur in Nanded. Following this Sonu left to verify and stopped people suspected who were with two bulls. As soon as he asked that person about carrying bulls he informed that se bulls are owned by Salim Qureshi. He immediately called well-kwn cattle Mafia Qureshi following which Qureshi and his man came and attacked Sonu with iron rods, sticks and stones due to which he got serious injuries. 

Case lodged at Mahur Police station in Nanded

A case was registered at Mahur Police station in Nanded Under IPC sections 307, 395 also Maharashtra Animal Preservation Act 1995 - 5(a) 5(b) and Prevention of Cruelty to Animal Act 1960- 11(1)(d)

Nanded Police SP ShreeKrishna Kokate said "Sonu Choudhary works for a Hindu organisation and is also a cow vigilante in Nanded, re were some issues over his Facebook post also. He saw a person named Sanjay Gaikwad going with two bulls, Sonu sought documents from Gaikwad to kw about actual owner of bulls. He immediately called Salim Qureshi and Sonu was with his three more friends, two of m left from spot to call police. Salim with a group of his associates came to spot and attacked Sonu. As soon as police reached spot se people ran away and Sonu got some serious head injuries. He was shifted to hospital and is out of danger.

He added, "Police have registered case against 10 people in this matter and arrested five of m. I request people if you get any inputs of any wrongdoing please do t take law in hand and inform police. Specifically cow vigilante, we request m t to take any action against any smugglers inform police first and allow police to take action."

"We have been taking up this with several governments. We request current govt to take serious action against those who are involved in killings and attacks on cow vigilantes, we have lost several cow vigilantes in Nanded, and re is continuous smuggling that happens in Nanded, cows are smuggled from Nanded to Telangana, If govt doesn't take action will keep loosing our VHP and Bajrang dal, Cow Vigilante, " said Sriraj Nair VHP Konkan Joint secretary. 

VHP's statement on incident

VHP Konkan Joint Secretary and Spokesperson Sriraj Nair said that serious action must be taken against those who are involved in attack on cow vigilante.

He said, "We have been taking up this with several governments. We request current government take serious action against those who are involved in killings and attacks on cow vigilantes. We have lost several cow vigilantes in Nanded. re is continuous smuggling that is happening in Nanded.  cows are smuggled from Nanded to Telangana, if government doesn't take action, we will keep losing our VHP and Bajrangdal Cow Vigilante."

As per laws in Maharashtra, slaughter of bulls and cows is banned under Animal Preservation Act and Animal Protection Act, re have been multiple cases in past where Cow vigilantes have been Assaulted and killed.