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cow vigilantism news

India’s first ‘cow culture museum’ to come up in UP's Mathura, says govt body

Museum will display approximately 100 digital and physical models of cattle. This will include all major cattle breeds found in India.
Updated on Feb 16, 2026 08:08 am IST

HC notice on plea challenging provisions of Haryana law ‘empowering’ vigilante groups

The petition has been filed by National Federation of Indian Women, a Delhi based group through advocate Arjun Sheoran. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Published on Nov 13, 2025 04:08 am IST

Haryana: Cow vigilantes throw 2 men into canal, one dies; 5 arrested

Of the 11 accused in the case, five have been arrested, police said.
Published on Mar 04, 2025 03:46 pm IST

‘Unfeasible’: SC on national directives on mob lynching

The petition, filed in the wake of increasing instances of mob violence allegedly linked to cow vigilantism, sought enforcement of the court’s 2018 ruling in the Tehseen Poonawalla case (ANI)
Updated on Feb 12, 2025 04:48 am IST

Haryana elections: In Mewat, cow vigilantism remains key electoral issue

A group of men discusses the upcoming Haryana assembly polls at Chandeni village in Nuh. (Parveen Kumar/HT)
Updated on Sept 21, 2024 07:25 am IST

Cow vigilante Bittu Bajrangi to contest Haryana election, files nomination

Bittu Bajrangi (HT Archive)
Published on Sept 10, 2024 01:09 pm IST

Senior leader of BJP ally condemns cow vigilante attacks in party-ruled Haryana

JD (U Leader KC Tyagi. (File)
Published on Sept 04, 2024 07:06 pm IST

In Nuh clashes lurk old patterns of sectarianism

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After the communal violence in Nuh, Rapid Action Force (RAF) has been deployed in sector-57 near Tigra Village to maintain law & order, in Gurugram, India, on Sunday. (Photo by Parveen Kumar/Hindustan Times)
Published on Aug 08, 2023 06:03 am IST

SC seeks response from Centre, 6 states on compensation for mob lynching victims

Supreme Court of India (File Photo)
Updated on Jul 29, 2023 12:21 pm IST

Rakbar Khan’s family slams 7-year jail term for 4, vows to continue fight

Rakbar Khan (File photo)
Updated on May 26, 2023 06:18 am IST

Bhiwani double murder: Monu Manesar, 20 others named in FIR

Mohit Yadav alias Monu Manesar said he would appear before the police in Bharatpur whenever called upon for the ongoing investigation in the Bhiwani murder case. (HT Archive)
Updated on May 22, 2023 05:11 am IST

Bhiwani killings: How pride intertwines with fear, ‘gau raksha’ in Haryana

Outside Monu Manesar’s house in Gurugram. (Parveen Kumar/HT Photo)
Updated on Jul 19, 2024 01:45 pm IST

India should rein in cow vigilante groups

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In 2018, the Supreme Court issued guidelines to curb acts of violence in the name of cow protection. States governments should have paid heed (ANI Picture Service)
Updated on Feb 28, 2023 08:45 am IST

Haryana Police refused to take Nasir, Junaid's custody: Accused's shocking claim

Nasir and Junaid were allegedly abducted by cow vigilantes on Wednesday and were found dead on Thursday morning.
Published on Feb 19, 2023 06:35 am IST

One accused in custody after charred bodies of 2 Rajasthan men found in Haryana

The charred bodies of two men, identified as Nasir, 25, and Junaid alias Juna, 35, were found in a Bolero car in Haryana’s Bhiwani.
Published on Feb 17, 2023 03:21 pm IST

Autopsy report out, cow rustler died of injuries sustained in accident, say cops

Autopsy report out, cow rustler died of injuries sustained in accident, say cops
Published on Jan 31, 2023 12:54 am IST

MP house panel on mob lynching has not met even once

Madhya Pradesh saw an incident of mob lynching a few days ago in which a farmer was killed by villagers in Dhar
Updated on Feb 09, 2020 10:02 pm IST

Cattle traders from other states stop buying cows at century-old Punjab cattle market

The cattle market at Dhanaula town in Barnala district, Punjab.
Published on Sept 18, 2019 12:35 pm IST

Madhya Pradesh approves law to punish cow vigilantes

The SC had directed Parliament to enact stern laws so as to provide “preventive, remedial and punitive measures” to deal with cow vigilantism and mob lynching. (Photo: Himanshu Vyas/HT)
Updated on Jun 27, 2019 07:32 am IST

5 ‘cow vigilantes’ held for assaulting 3 in MP

Pathak said the three persons who were beaten up have also been arrested after about 140 kg of red meat, suspected to be beef, was seized from them. Possession and sale of beef is illegal in Madhya Pradesh.
Updated on May 25, 2019 10:31 pm IST

Curfew continues in violence-hit Jammu town for second day

Paramilitary vehicles and personnel stand along a barricade during restrictions in the downtown area of Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India on May 17, 2019. A complete shutdown is being observed in Kashmir following a separatist’s call for it against the recent killings in Kashmir
Published on May 18, 2019 01:46 am IST

Curfew in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bhaderwah after one person killed in firing

Soon after the incident, family of the deceased attacked the Bhaderwah police station, damaged five vehicles and set afire a three wheeler, they said.
Updated on May 16, 2019 04:29 pm IST

‘Pakistan will treat minorities as equals’: Imran Khan’s latest jibe at India

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday again tried to compare the treatment of minorities in his country and India, saying these communities would be treated as equal citizens in “Naya Pakistan”, “unlike what is happening in India”.
Updated on Dec 25, 2018 07:23 pm IST

Cow vigilantism: Cop, villager killed in Bulandshahr clashes; UP sets up probe team

Vehicles set on fire by a mob during a protest over the alleged illegal slaughter of cattle, in Bulandshahr.
Updated on Dec 04, 2018 07:17 am IST

Govt directs AIR, DD to run warning messages on mob violence

According to the order, people will have to be cautioned that “mob lynching will invite serious consequences under the law” via scrolls on television and messages on radio.
Published on Sept 28, 2018 11:01 pm IST

SC asks states, union territories to comply with its order on cow vigilantism, lynchings

A view of the Supreme Court in New Delhi.
Updated on Sept 25, 2018 12:50 am IST

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat pitches for cow protection, disapproves violence

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said it is a crime to take law in one’s hands and there should be stringent punishment in such cases.
Updated on Sept 19, 2018 07:39 pm IST

Those involved in lynchings can’t call themselves nationalists: Venkaiah Naidu

Vice president M Venkaiah Naidu during an interview with PTI at his residence in New Delhi.
Updated on Sept 09, 2018 03:39 pm IST

SC asks states to file report on dealing with cow vigilantism, lynchings within one week

The Supreme Court had in July asked the Parliament to come up with an anti-lynching law to tackle cow vigilantism and lynch mobs while laying down preventive, remedial, and punitive measures
Updated on Sept 07, 2018 01:51 pm IST

SC seeks Rajasthan government’s reply on contempt plea in Alwar lynching case

Members of All India Students Association (AISA) hold placards as they protest against the mob lynchings in the country, at Parliament street, in New Delhi, on Friday, June 22, 2018.
Updated on Aug 20, 2018 12:55 pm IST