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New Delhi: Cow vigilante Monu Manesar was detained by Haryana Police on Tuesday. Manesar, a Bajrang Dal member, was booked in February for the killing of two Muslim men from Rajasthan. The Haryana Police did not immediately confirm that the Bajrang Dal activist has been detained but an office bearer of the group’s parent organisation said he was picked up in Gurugram’s Manesar. The Haryana Police will reportedly hand him over to the Rajasthan Police.
Residents of a village in Rajasthan’s Bharatpur, Junaid, 35, and Nasir, 25, were allegedly abducted by cow vigilantes on February 15. Their charred bodies were found only the next day in a Bolero which was set ablaze in Loharu in Haryana’s Bhiwani. Their families in alleged they were beaten and killed by members of the Bajrang Dal; the group denies any involvement in the crime.
For the unknown, Monu Manesar, whose real name is Mohit Yadav, describes himself as a ‘gau rakshak’ and social activist. He joined Bajrang Dal as a district co-coordinator from Manesar in 2011 and earns a living by sub-letting rooms to labourers in the Manesar area.
Monu made headlines in 2019 when he was shot at while chasing alleged cow smugglers. He was also a member of a district cow protection task force set up by the Haryana government after a cow protection law was enacted in 2015.
Earlier in February, speaking to Indian Express, he had said: “I grew up around cows. Meri aasthaa hai gau maata se aur mera dharm hai inki raksha karna. (It is a matter of faith for me and it is my duty to protect the holy cow). After witnessing atrocities against cows, I vowed to rescue them and to stop illegal cattle smuggling, which is rampant in places like Mewat (Nuh) and nearby districts.”
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday met the family of a man who was killed in violence in the State’s Nuh district on July 31. The chief minister arrived at the residence of the deceased youth Abhishek, this morning.
Clashes between two groups broke out in Nuh on July 31 after a religious procession passing through the district was attacked in which 6 people, including two Home Guards were killed and around 20 policemen injured in the frenzy of violence that followed.
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