Madhya Pradesh: Men beat up youth in Ujjain for allegedly cutting a cow’s tail

The attack was captured on video and showed the men mercilessly kicking, thrashing the victim.

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· May 14, 2017 · 03:13 pm

Why Hindu farmers and cattle traders in Rajasthan are angry with gau rakshaks

Those who buy and sell milch cows and oxen for farm work say cow vigilantes have made it impossible for them to conduct their business.

Ajaz Ashraf

· May 06, 2017 · 06:30 am

Watch: Instead of pulling up cow vigilantes, Adityanath says ‘mere sloganeering is not enough’

Is that the right stance to take after the cow vigilante violence?

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· May 04, 2017 · 01:00 pm

The story of a lynching: Why a mob killed two suspected cattle thieves in cold blood in Assam

The police say it was not another case of cow vigilantism. But activists blame the extreme brutality on a new culture of impunity.

Arunabh Saikia

· May 03, 2017 · 06:30 am

‘Those who are violent can’t be gau rakshaks,’ says man who fought to end cow slaughter for 33 years

A member of India’s longest satyagrah speaks out.

Mridula Chari

· Apr 30, 2017 · 09:00 am

Watch: Cow protection in India has a complicated history

It began in the 1800s.

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· Apr 26, 2017 · 05:00 pm

To mark the centenary of 1857, gau-rakshaks planned a ‘mutiny’ in 1957

Police intelligence records show that the plan was discussed in a series of meetings at Delhi in 1955.

Dhirendra K Jha

· Apr 25, 2017 · 12:30 pm

Delhi: One arrested for assaulting Muslim youths transporting buffaloes

The accused has claimed to be a member of the Maneka Gandhi-run People for Animals group, but the minister had denied its involvement in the case.

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· Apr 24, 2017 · 03:38 pm

Dismayed by government’s inaction against cow vigilantes who lynched Alwar man, say IAS officers

Senior bureaucrats noted a ‘reprehensible attempt on the part of certain people in authority in Rajasthan and in the Union government to deny the incident’.

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· Apr 24, 2017 · 02:37 pm

Watch: This was the scene soon after the attack on buffalo transporters in South Delhi

Charges have been pressed against the victims. The assailants are still free.

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· Apr 24, 2017 · 10:00 am

Chilling video seems to show how Jammu cow vigilantes brutally attacked a family of nomadic herders

11 alleged gau rakshaks are arrested, even as the police book four members of the family for transporting cattle without permission.

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· Apr 23, 2017 · 10:47 pm

Watch: Self-styled cow vigilante Sadhvi Kamal praises Alwar murder-accused, promises quick release

‘If we don’t do such things in our country then who will?’

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· Apr 21, 2017 · 10:00 am