Cow smugglers are 'terrorists': Rajasthan BJP vice-president
Jaipur, Jan 2: The vice-president of the BJP's Rajasthan unit has said cow smugglers were like "terrorists" and asked the newly-elected Congress government to protest against cow smuggling and slaughter.
"I will call those people terrorists who indulge in cow smuggling and slaughter but do not desist from their actions. It's strange that none of the Congress leaders protest against the menace. Now, they are in power and they should work to stop such crimes," Gyan Dev Ahuja told reporters in Alwar on Tuesday.
His comments come three days after a 23-year-old youth, Sagir Khan, was beaten up by a mob in Alwar district on Sunday for allegedly transporting cattle illegally.
Ahuja, a former Ramgarh constituency MLA from Alwar, claimed that there was no mob lynching in the district as such. "It is not a planned murder or beating like murder and rape. It's people's anger which burst when police fails to take cognisance."
He said the people's anger was a part of a "natural course" as those involved in cow smuggling and slaughter were not able to answer "satisfactorily" when they were stopped.
The Bharatiya Janata Party vice-president said people belonging to the Muslim community should respect the sentiments of the "big brother", the Hindus, and protest against cow smuggling and slaughter.
Ahuja claimed that the accused booked in the Pehlu Khan mob-lynching cas were "innocent". An inquiry revealed that they were not present at the spot and were later revealed on bail, he said. "However, I am not in favour manhandling and murder."
The BJP leader had courted controversies earlier too with his remarks. In July, Ahuja had said cow slaughter was a "bigger crime" than terrorism. He had also demanded the release of three persons arrested for allegedly lynching 28-year-old Rakbar Khan on the suspicion of smuggling cows.
In 2016, he had alleged that the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) was hub of sex and drugs, where over "3,000 used condoms and 2,000 liquor bottles" are found daily.
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Mumbai family deaths: FDA finds no watermelon vendor in area to check for affected stock
Mumbai (PTI): The Food and Drug Administration team probing the cause of death of four members of a family in south Mumbai's JJ Marg area have not been able to zero in on any watermelon vendor in the vicinity to check if the fruit had a role to play in the ill-fated incident, an official said on Thursday.
The Dokadia family, residents of Ghari Mohalla on Ismail Kurte Road, had hosted a get-together of relatives on the night of April 25. At around 1 am, hours after the guests had left, Abdullah Dokadia (40), his wife Nasreen (35), and daughters Ayesha (16) and Zaineb (13) ate pieces of a watermelon.
They suffered severe bouts of vomiting and diarrhoea in the early hours of April 26 and were rushed to a local hospital before being referred to the government-run J J Hospital where all four died during treatment.
"The FDA team visited the house of Dokadia and collected samples of chicken pulao and watermelon pieces. After two days, the leftover chicken pulao had developed fungus growth. The team also tried to locate watermelon vendors to check for any affected lots," he said.
But no vendors were found in the area for the past two days, preventing the FDA team from getting samples, the official added.
The FDA has requested the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) to share the report on the food samples collected by them, he added.
A senior Mumbai police official said the force is waiting for FSL reports in the case, adding that questions on presence of sedatives etc in the fruit could be answered only then.
The statements of the kin of the deceased are being recorded to ascertain if it is a case of mass suicide, and it is being checked if the Dokadia family were in debt or distressed over some issue, the police official said.
