A loudspeaker perched atop an auto-rickshaw in Nuh announces on the loop that soon there will be an end to “terror of cow vigilantes”, claiming that the Congress is coming to power in Haryana after a decade. Khan was arrested on September 14 last year on charges of spreading fake news related to communal riots in Nuh the previous month, …
The Haryana government last week directed local administrations to set up special committees for cow protection and promised to crack down on private cow vigilante groups. The move came after this newspaper reported how lack of enforcement of a section of the Gauvansh Sanrakshan and Gausamvardhan Act, 2015, and the failure of the state government to set up district cow …