Hyderabad: Temple Chairman Found Selling Cow For Slaughter; Police Files FIR

Two temple management officials in Telangana have been booked for allegedly selling the cows for slaughter.

The Hyderabad police have booked them for selling cows for slaughter to a local slaughterhouse, and an FIR has been filed in the matter.

An FIR has been filed against chairman D Prem Kumar and committee member Edla Mahender of Sri Ammavari Devalayam (Pochamma Gudi) temple near Hyderabad's Dabeerpura area, according to a report by India Today.

The police acted on a complaint filed by Akhila Bharatha Gau Seva Foundation. The representative of Gau Seva Foundation, A Bala Krishna, alleged that the temple chairman and committee member sold the cow to the slaughterhouse.

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Based on the complaint, police booked both the men under IPC 44/2022 U/S 5 and 10 of the Telangana Prohibition of Cow Slaughter and Animal Preservation Act, 1977 and launched further investigation.

Earlier in March, dogs were found feeding on cow carcasses strewn in an open space next to a gaushala in Madhya Pradesh's Indore.

The matter came to light when a group of cow worshipers reached the cowshed run by Ahilya Mata Jeevdaya Mandal Trust in Pedmi village, about 35 km from Indore city, and found foul odour emanating from the area.

¡°Lynching can¡¯t go on¡±

Taking note of lynching on suspicion of cow slaughter, the Supreme Court of India said that the practice cannot go on.

The court sent a former Bajrang Dal leader back to jail for allegedly leading a mob that killed a police officer in Uttar Pradesh¡¯s Bulandshahr district in December 2018.

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The leader was out on bail since September 2019, and the petition in the Supreme Court was filed by Rajni Singh, the wife of police inspector Subodh Kumar Singh, who was killed in the mob attack.

¡°The matter is quite serious where under the pretext of cow slaughter, a police officer has been lynched. We are of the prima facie view that this is a matter of law being taken into their own hands by the accused,¡± said a bench of justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and MM Sundresh.

¡°We can¡¯t permit these things to go on. We are very sure about it. We can¡¯t permit lynching at all,¡± said the bench, underscoring its disapproval of mob lynching in the name of protecting cows or preventing cow slaughter.

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