Madhya Pradesh: Houses of two men accused of cow slaughter bulldozed

Authorities in Madhya Pradesh’s Morena district on Wednesday bulldozed the homes of two men accused of cow slaughter, reported ANI.

The police claimed that the homes were illegal and built without permission.

There are no provisions in Indian law that allow for demolishing property as a punitive measure, but the practice has become commonplace in Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states.

The allegations came to light on Friday after a man named Anipal Gurjar filed a complaint claiming that he had seen a few persons slaughtering a cow, PTI reported, quoting Sub-Divisional Officer of Police Adarsh Shukla. Gurjar was allegedly attacked when he opposed the slaughtering of the animal, Shukla added.

Later on Friday evening, the police conducted searches at the house in the Bengali colony in the district’s Noorabad village where the alleged slaughter took place, The Indian Express reported.

According to Shukla, cow skin, and two sacks of bones and beef, were seized from the house of the accused persons, PTI reported. He said that subsequently, four persons, including two women, were arrested, and a minor was also detained.

On Saturday, two men among those accused, Asgar and Retua, were booked under the the National Security Act and sent to jail, Additional Superintendent of Police Arvind Thakur said, according to the news agency.

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