MEERUT: Another video of the Hapur
lynching purportedly showing a mob beating up a man and forcing him to confess to having slaughtered a cow has gone viral on social media. In the shocking video, Samayuddin, 65, one of the two men who were allegedly brutally assaulted by the mob, can be seen pleading to the attackers, who hold him by his beard and thrash him badly.
In the video, mob can be heard interrogating Samayuddin on cow slaughter and asking him to identify other accomplices. The severely injured man can be heard denying the charges, after which, he is thrashed again.
Samayuddin was rushed to a local hospital and later referred to a city hospital where his condition remains critical.
Earlier, another video had gone viral following the shocking incident in Bacheda village on June 18. It showed a man with multiple injuries lying in a field.
Police had earlier said Qasim, 45, was lynched following a minor tiff with a man on a motorcycle, denying reports that a mob attacked him and Samayuddin over rumours of cow slaughter.
Sources, however, claimed that Qasim and his friend Samayuddin were shooing away a cow and its calf from their field when someone spread the rumour that they were taking the bovine for slaughter. Within no time, a mob gathered at the spot and attacked the two men with lathis. While Qasim succumbed to his injuries a few hours later, Samayuddin remains critical.
Earlier, a photograph of Qasim being dragged by a crowd in the presence of three policemen had gone viral on social media.
Uttar Pradesh Police had apologised on Friday over the manner in which Qasim was being handled after he was badly injured in the attack.
In Delhi, Samayuddin's brother had alleged on Friday that the UP Police had not recorded the FIR in the manner wanted by his family.
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