Four persons arrested by the Moradabad Police on Monday, May 24. | Moradabad Police/Twitter
A video has emerged on social media of a man being assaulted by a group in the Katghar police station in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad district.
The victim, Mohammed Shakir, was assaulted by a person, identified as Manoj Thakur, and others on Sunday afternoon. Shakir works in the business of transporting and selling meat, according to NDTV.
In a written complaint, Shakir’s brother said that he was harassed and then beaten up for carrying 50 kilograms of buffalo meat on his scooter. The complaint also mentions that the vigilantes demanded Rs 50,000 from Shakir and then assaulted him.
Case registered, search underway for accused in UP s Moradabad mob lynching incident ANI | Updated: May 24, 2021 11:58 IST
Moradabad (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 24 (ANI): A case has been registered against at least five people in Uttar Pradesh s Moradabad after a video of the alleged mob lynching of a meat-seller went viral on social media platforms, the police said on Monday. A video went viral on Monday, where a meat-seller was seen being thrashed by the people. The police immediately took cognizance of the matter and a case has been registered under various sections, SSP Moradabad Prabhakar Chaudhary said. There are five to six accused in the cases. The case has been registered at Katghar police station, Chaudhary said.
Four of the men who assaulted Mohd Shakir have been arrested, police said
Lucknow:
A Muslim man in the business of transporting and selling meat was assaulted Sunday afternoon in western Uttar Pradesh s Moradabad district by a group of men led by a person calling himself a
gau rakshak (cow vigilante) .
The police have filed a case against the men who carried out the assault based on a complaint by the victim s brother. However, they have also filed a counter case - of their own volition - against the victim, who has been identified as Mohammed Shakir.
The counter case lists charges relating to mischief by killing an animal , committing an act likely to spread infection , and violation of Covid lockdown guidelines .
COVID-19 surveillance teams deployed in rural areas of Moradabad ANI | Updated: May 13, 2021 11:36 IST
Moradabad (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 13 (ANI): Due to the COVID surge in rural areas, Uttar Pradesh s Moradabad administration on Thursday informed that it has taken several steps to curb the spread of the disease in the rural areas of the district.
According to the Moradabad, Additional Director, Health, Dr Vineet Shukla, they have appointed a minimum of four teams for surveillance in each block of Moradabad district. We have appointed a minimum of four teams in each block for surveillance. We will also have two vehicles within two days that will conduct COVID-19 test in each village, said Shukla.
The body of Mohammad Nasir, a Covid victim in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad, reached a crematorium on Wednesday while that of another coronavirus patient, Ram Prasad, was carried to a graveyard, the PPE jackets in which they had been wrapped obscuring their identities and causing the mix-up.
Farmers Nasir and Ram Prasad had been admitted to Cosmos Hospital.
Nasir’s relatives received a body wrapped in a PPE jacket from the hospital and took it to Shah Bulaki Graveyard in the Civil Lines area of Moradabad city and buried it in the afternoon.
The relatives of Ram Prasad took the body handed over to them to the Moksh Dham crematorium on Delhi Road and were waiting for their turn when a relative realised something was wrong.