Jharkhand: 15 policemen stave off 1,000-strong mob to rescue dairy farmer whose cow died
NB: More of the same. The Sangh-instigated cow vigilantes now seem to be demanding that all cows owned by Muslim cattle-herders should be immortal. This is a plan to destroy livestock-farming by anyone other than RSS certified 'patriots'. DS
A police team of just
15 managed to hold off a mob of around 1,000 people for around two hours before
reinforcements from a CRPF camp nearby arrived to rescue a 60-year-old dairy
farmer, who was attacked after the carcass of a cow was found outside his house
at Barwabad village in Jharkhand’s Giridih district. According to eyewitnesses and police, the mob also set fire to a portion of the house on Tuesday afternoon and wanted to throw the victim, Mohammad Usman, into the flames before police dragged him into their jeep and prevented attackers from pulling him out, twice.
“We were only 15
personnel. The crowd, which was there for the weekly bazaar, had swelled to a
thousand. Our first aim was to take Usman in our custody. We managed that but
were not able to take him out of the village. Then, we got information that his
family members were holed up inside the house. We managed to enter the house
through a staircase in the back and rescue them. By that time, Usman had been
beaten up badly and was unconscious,” said Prabhat Ranjan Barwar, the
sub-divisional police officer, who headed the team from Deori that reached the
spot first.
Barwar’s version was
corroborated by at least three eyewitnesses that The Indian Express spoke to at
the village: Jawed Ansari, a watchman from Khasgodi village nearby; Nizamuddin,
another watchman; and Manzoor Alam, pradhan of Barwabad village. On Wednesday, these
three were among a handful of men present in the village, which wore a deserted
look — by evening, only a few shops had opened. Usman and his family were in
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