Hours after PM Modi's speech, man accused of carrying beef, beaten to death in Jharkhand

This is second such case in Jharkhand in the last three days.

Ranchi, June 29 : A man accused of carrying beef was beaten to death on Thursday in Jharkhand's Ramgarh district.

This happened hours after Prime Minister Modi said that killing people in the name of cow protection is not acceptable.

Police sources said Alimuddin alias Asgar Ansari was carrying the "banned meat" in a Maruti van.

A group of people stopped him near Bajartand village and brutally attacked him, the sources said. His van was set on fire too.

Police personnel rescued him and took him to a hospital where he died during the course of treatment.

"It's premeditated murder," Additional Director General of Police R.K. Mallik told IANS.

"Asgar was chargesheeted for child abduction and murder," the officer said, adding that some people involved in beef trade hatched a conspiracy to kill him. "The killers have been identified."

The officer, RK Malik, has called it "premeditated murder". He said the attackers seemed to have been lying in wait for Mr Ansari, who was "involved in some trading or business of meat." The killers he said have been identified and are suspected to be people who had business dealings with Mr Ansari. He said he could not confirm whether Mr Ansari was carrying beef.

This is second such case in Jharkhand in the last three days. In Giridih district, a mob thrashed a person and set on fire his house after a cow head was found.

IANS