Two more persons were arrested on Sunday in connection with an incident in Madhya Pradesh’s Seoni district, in which five persons had assaulted three others for allegedly carrying beef, following which the attackers and the victims were held.
With this, the number of people arrested in the May 22 incident, a video of which went viral on the social media, stood at 10, an official said.
According to the police, a group of five “gaurakshaks” (cow vigilantes) allegedly beat up two men with sticks and forced one of the victims to thrash a woman accompanying them with chappals.
While the five self-styled cow vigilantes were held under various sections of the penal code, the three persons who got thrashed were arrested under the Madhya Pradesh Govansh Vadh Pratishedh Adhiniyam.
“We arrested siblings Rasheed Hakim (24) and Sammi Hakim (20) on Sunday for selling meat to the three people who were beaten up on May 22,” informed Dunda Seoni police station in-charge G.S. Uike.
