Cricketers playing in a unique Vadodara tournament do not fight for a trophy, but living calves! Organised by the Rabari community, the cricket tournament comes at a time when the country is consumed by controversies surrounding the issue of cow slaughter.
Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi is convinced that Pehlu Khan was not lynched by a mob in Rajasthan’s Alwar district. Defending his government in the Rajya Sabha, Naqvi, had on Thursday declared that “the incident did not take place on the ground.” But mounting evidence surrounding the grusome suggests otherwise.
Pehlu Khan’s family in Haryana’s Jaisinghpur have not had a moment of peace in the last three days. Khan, father to eight children, succumbed to injuries at a hospital after he was brutally thrashed by a mob on the Behror highway in Rajasthan’s Alwar district on Monday. The mob, reportedly populated by members Gau Rakshaks or cow vigilantes attacked around 15 men, including two of Pehlu’s sons over allegations of cow smuggling.
