This is PM Modi's 'brutal new India', says Rahul Gandhi after Alwar lynching

Congress President Rahul Gandhi hit out Monday at the Narendra Modi government over the Alwar lynching.

"This is Modi’s brutal New India where humanity is replaced with hatred and people are crushed and left to die," Gandhi tweeted this morning.

He also expressed anguish over the delay by police in taking the victim to the hospital.

The police, reportedly, first took the cows — over which the lynching took place — to a shelter, then took the victim Rakbar Khan to the police station to change his clothes, and then stopped for tea before finally taking him to hospital.

The FIR in the case revealed that the police received a call at about 12.41 am but they arrived at the spot at 1.15 or 1.20 am.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court on Monday said that it would hear a contempt plea against the Rajasthan government on August 20.

Petitioners Tushar Gandhi and Tehseen Poonawalla brought up the matter before the court and wanted it to be taken up this week but Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra said it would be heard in August.

In their contempt pleas, Poonawalla and Gandhi alleged that offences were taking place despite the Supreme Court verdict on cow vigilantism.