Hate Watch: Cow vigilantes at it again, this time in Punjab A truck driver was beaten up on suspicion of cattle smuggling
10, Feb 2023 | CJP Team
A video has surfaced on Twitter today, February 10, showing a truck driver being attacked by some goons, in the presence of police personnel. While there is a lot of commotion depicted in the video, it seems clear that a few men stopped a truck in the middle of the road and started threatening the driver and demanded that he get off the truck and open the truck and show what cargo he was carrying.
The person recording the video can be heard saying that the truck was smuggling “gomata” or cows to Srinagar, even while the truck driver was being beaten up mercilessly on a dark dingy side of the road.
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Location: Amritsar, Punjab
Date: February 10 around 2 am
Members of various Cow vigilante groups, including Hindu Jagruti Manch, thrashed a truck driver in front of policemen over cattle smuggling allegations. The truck was on its way from Faridkot to Jammu. pic.twitter.com/kMKRS0s6ey
— HindutvaWatch (@HindutvaWatchIn) February 10, 2023
One of the men can also be heard directing the police to handcuff the driver. Another man can be heard telling others to stop beating him. One man can be heard saying that he salutes the Punjab Police for nabbing these trucks as they are smuggling cows and it is a sin under Sanatan Dharm.
The video, however, stops abruptly when the truck door is being opened to show whether (or not) the truck was actually carrying the cows as alleged.Cow vigilantism is not a common phenomenon in Punjab and no such incident in recent times has been reported from the state. In any case this signifies one more in a long line of countrywide instances of mob (in) justice –mobs taking ‘law’ into their own hands.
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