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Maharashtra: Muslim man beaten to death by Hindutva men on suspicion of carrying beef on Eid

By News Desk

July 04, 2023

Affan Abdul Ansari, a 32-year-old was beaten to death by a brutal Hindu extremist mob in Maharashtra over suspicions of carrying cow meat.

In another incident in the same state, a 23-year-old Muslim man named Lukman Suleman Ansari was lynched to death by a Hindu extremist mob in Maharshtra’s Nashik area.

Earlier, a Muslim couple was attacked by Hindu extremists for bringing home goats for Eid ul Adha. The Muslim couple was called “terrorists” and attacked by a mob of Hindu extremists in Mumbai city after they brought goats meant for sacrifice into their housing complex.

The couple Mohsin Khan and Yasmin Khan told the media that “If bringing the goats inside the housing colony was against the law, then they should have filed a police complaint against us. “We were assaulted, molested, and mentally harassed by the mob that gathered to protest against us.”

Yasmin Khan said; “They started manhandling us… During the scuffle they also tore my clothes, forcing me to call the police.”  “They did not allow us to enter the [housing] society and called us terrorists… and said “we should not be allowed to stay in the society,” she reported.

This Bakareid’ Muslims in Uttarakhand were barred from offering Eid prayers and told to pray 25 miles away.

Muslim from Badrinath town in Uttarakhand were instructed by police to not hold Eid prayers inside the town. They were ordered to offer Eid prayers in Joshimath, a neighboring town, nearly 25 miles away from Badrinath. Inputs from Muslim Mirror