Alwar lynching: Man beaten to death by mob on suspicion of being cow smuggler

Days after the Supreme Court condemned lynching incidents calling them as 'horrendous act of mobocracy', a fresh incident of mob violence was reported from Rajasthan's Alwar district on Friday. 

A mob beat a man to death in Alwar's Ramgarh, suspecting him to be a cow smuggler. The victim was identified as Akbar Khan who along with another man was transporting cows on foot.

Akbar Khan, a resident of Kolgaon in Haryana, was spotted with a couple of cows in Alwar's Lalawandi area in Ramgarh police station area when he was attacked. The victim's body has been kept in the morgue of a local hospital as the police is investing the matter further. 

"It is not clear if they were cow smugglers. The body has been sent for postmortem. We are trying to identify the culprits and arrests will be made soon," Anil Beniwal, ASP Alwar said.

This is not for the first time that Alwar has witnessed a case related to cow vigilantism. In April 2017, a man - Pehlu Khan - was killed by 'gau rakshaks' for allegedly smuggling cattle.

The latest incident comes just a day after the issue of mob lynching reverberated in Lok Sabha during the debate on no-confidence motion against the NDA government.