In the name of the cow: Murder, flogging, humiliation of Muslims, Dalits

The lynching of Mohammad Akhlaq in his home outside Delhi in September 2015 on suspicion that he devoured meat has been trailed by a rash of assaults by dairy animals vigilante bunches crosswise over North India. No less than three individuals have been slaughtered for the current year as such, and a few beaten, whipped and subjected to serious indignities. In Gujarat, the flagellating of Dalits for cleaning a dead cow has activated unconstrained road dissents not found in years, and added to circumstances that apparently prompted the abdication of Chief Minister Anandiben Patel. Late points of reference on the hazardous street that India seems, by all accounts, to be on.

Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh

No assaults this year in either state.

In any case, on October 18, 2015, the cleaner of a truck, Zahid Ahmad of Anantnag, kicked the bucket of blazes endured amid the petrol-besieging of the Valley-bound vehicle on October 9 in Udhampur by a nearby horde dissenting an "issue with" facilitated by autonomous MLA Engineer Rashid in Srinagar a couple days prior. The affirmed aggressors were charged under the Public Safety Act.

In Himachal, Noman, 20, was lynched in Lawasa town in Sirmour area on October 17, 2015, supposedly by villagers who pursued the truck in which he was shipping bovines to Saharanpur. 4 of Noman's partners and about six villagers were reserved; the last were, in any case, discharged on safeguard by HC.

Punjab

Jan 2: 2 trucks professedly conveying wild ox tallow ceased in Rupnagar area; 1 truck burnt; both drivers fled.

Damage 28: Truck supposedly conveying bison tallow ceased on Rupnagar-Kurali street; driver Balkar Singh whipped; booked under dairy animals butcher law.

Jul 31: Rakesh Kumar, Ramesh Kumar beaten for professedly butchering bovines outside Malout, Muktsar region; booked under dairy animals butcher Act.