Nalin Kohli

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Cow vigilantes in Ramgarh in the year 2015, A Muslim dairy farmer was stopped late one night In July of 2018, when he led two cows down a lane in rural Rajasthan , in the South of the Indian capital city of Delhi. Within hours, he was Dead , But who killed him, asks the BBC's James Clayton - the "Cow -vigilantes", who he met on the street, or The Police ?

It is 4 o'clock in The Morning , and Dr. Hassan Khan , the duty doctor in Ramgarh hospital, you will be notified of something unusual.

The Police do not have to know in a Dead Man , A Man you claim.

"What The Police were like when you brought him here? You were quiet?" I ask him.

"Not quiet," he says. "You were scared. "

"Are you usually scared?" I Ask You A Question.

"usually Not," he says and laughs nervously.

The Dead later, Khan identified by His father as a farmer Rakbar.

This was not a random Murder . The story illustrates some of The Social tensions bubbling away under The Surface in India, and particularly in the North of the country.

And His case raises questions for authorities - including the ruling Hindu-nationalist BJP party.

Cow -violence - 2012-2019Rakbar Khan is a Family Man . He had seven children.

He kept cows, and he also happened to be Muslim. This can be a dangerous mix in India.

"We have always raised the cows, and we depend on her milk for our livelihood," says Rakbar father, Suleiman.

"nobody used to Say Anything , if you transported a Cow . "

That has changed. Several men were killed in The Last few years, during the Transport of the cows in the predominantly Muslim region of Mewat, not far from Delhi, where Rakbar lived.

"the people are afraid. If we are going to have a Cow they will kill us. They surround our vehicle. So everyone is too scared of these animals," says Suleiman.

Everyone I speak to in The Village of the Khan, fear of gau rakshaks - Cow -protection-life Gangs .

Nawal Kishore Sharma Cow -protection group in the year 2015, The Gangs often consist of young, hardline Hindus, who believe passionately in the defence of India sacred animals.

do not believe that the laws for the protection of the cows, such as a ban on the slaughter of The Animals are still full and you have to hunt for "Cow smuggler", which they believe will take cows for the production of meat has been killed.

they are Often armed, responsible for dozens of attacks on farmers in India in The Last five years, the monitors, reports of hate crimes in the media.

21. July 2018, Rakbar Khan, The Local gau rakshak met.

There are some things we know for certain about what happened That Night .

Rakbar a small road with two cows. It was late and it was raining heavily.

Then, out of the darkness the lights of the motorcycles came. We know this because Rakbar was with a friend, who survived.

At this point The Details are a little sketchier. There are three versions of the story.

The Gang take Rakbar, But His friend, Aslam, slipped away. He lay on the ground, in the mud, and prayed that he would not be found.

"There's so much fear was in me, my heart was hurt," he says.

"from there, I Heard the screams. Were you beat him. There was not a single part of His body that was not broken. He was beaten very badly. "

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Aslam says that Rakbar was killed, then and there.

But there is evidence that suggests otherwise.

Much of what happens next is focused around the leader of The Local Cow vigilante group, Nawal Kishore Sharma.

Aslam says he belongs to The Gang to address him by the name That Night , But when I'm talking to Sharma, he denies he was there.

Nawal Kishore Sharma "It's about 00:30 in The Morning and I was asleep in My House ... Some of my group called me to say, you would say there began to be some Cow -smugglers," he said.

According to Nawal Kishore Sharma, he then drove with The Police on The Spot . "He was alive, and he was fine," he says.

But that is not what The Police say.

In your "first incident report", they say, that Rakbar was in fact alive when she found him.

"Nawal Kishore Sharma informed The Police at around 00:41, that some of the men were smuggling two cows to walk," says The Report .

"Then The Police Nawal Kishore met outside of The Police , and they All went in the place.

"There was A Man , injured and covered with mud.

", out He told The Police His name, His father's name, His age (28), and The Village he was in.

"And when he was done, these rates, which he almost immediately Dead . Then he stood in The Police vehicle and leave for Ramgarh .

"Then The Police reached Ramgarh with Rakbar, where the available doctor declared him Dead . "

Ramgarh in The Night , But this version of events is very doubtful.

I go to The Hospital in Ramgarh where Rakbar was taken. Hospital employees are eager to go through bound books of Hospital Records in search of Rakbar admission entry.

And Then , this is it. "Unknown corpse" at 04:00 on 21. Of July 2018.

It is not a long entry, But it is contrary to The Police the story and raises some questions.

For a start, Rakbar was found about 12 Minutes away from The Hospital . Why did it take More Than Three Hours for him there?

And if The Police say that Rakbar gave them His name, why didn't you say The Hospital , she knew who he was?

Nawal Kishore Sharma claims to know why. He paints a very different picture of what happened Rakbar.

He tells me that after picking up Rakbar, you changed His clothes.

He then claimed that it had was two photos of Rakbar - who at this time with The Police .

Sharma says he went to The Police with The Police . He claims that, when the beating started.

"The Police injured him severely. You beat him with your shoes," he says.

"you force him to the Left Side of His body four times. Then they beat him with sticks. You hit him here (pointing to His ribs), and even on His neck. "

against 03:00 Nawal Kishore Sharma says he went with some Police officers, the two cows, a local Cow shelter. When he came back, he says, The Police told him that Rakbar had died.

Rakbar s death certificate shows that His leg and hand were broken. He had badly had and broken beat, His ribs, had a lung pierced His .

According to His death certificate he died of "shock... as a result of the injuries sustained over the body".

I urge the duty of the doctor in The Hospital , if he remembers what was Rakbar body, such as when The Police brought it in.

"It was cold," he says.

I ask him how long it would take for a body to become cold After Death .

"A couple of hours," he replies.

"I don't want to talk about Rakbar case," says Rejendra Singh, the chief of Police of Alwar district, comprised of Ramgarh .

Since Rakbar the Murder of several Police officers have been suspended. I want to know why.

He looks uneasy to me.

"There was a carelessness on The Police side," he says.

I ask him, what were these lapses.

"had you followed the regular Police procedure, which they should do," he says. "It had fallen a large. "

Three men, one of Nawal Kishore Sharma vigilante group were calculated with Rakbar the Murder . Sharma remains under investigation.

vigilante group and The Police blame each other for Rakbar death, But neither denies work together in this night.

The way Sharma describes it, The Police can't be everywhere, so that the vigilantes will help you to. But it is The Police , "take All The Action ," he says.

Nawal Kishore Sharma checks a truck transporting cows (October 2015) a Lot of Police activity in Rajasthan is focused on stopping Cow slaughter.

Across The State , there are dozens of formal Cow checkpoints, where Police stop vehicles in search of smugglers, the cows are killed.

I visited one of the checkpoints. Sure enough The Police were patient, stopping vehicles and Looking for the cows.

in The Night in front of officers in a firefight with a group of men that don't stop after a truck had.

item, These control common in some parts of India. Sometimes they are run by The Police , sometimes by the vigilante, and sometimes from both.

This is at The Heart of the Rakbar case.

Human Rights groups argue that His Murder - and others, such as His Show that in some areas The Police have Too Close to the Gangs .

The vigilantes find what you are Looking for (February 2015) "Unfortunately, we find too often that The Police say he complicit in this," says Meenakshi Ganguly of Human Rights Watch,

In some areas, The Police were reluctant to arrest The Perpetrators of the violence - and a lot quicker to track people accused of either consumption or trade with beef and veal",.

He also has a number of controversial statements about the "Cow smuggler".

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