Trigger Warning: Disturbing Details Self-proclaimed cow vigilantes on January 1 brutally assaulted a middle-aged man in Kishanpura village in Aklera tehsil of Jhalawar district in Rajasthan, accusing him of killing…
American comedian Jeremy McLellan gets abused for calling out cow vigilantes, responds with comic savagery
Hindutva supporters have come to be known for their persistent social media trolling, abusing and stalking anyone criticising BJP. A large majority of them are often well educated, middle-upper middle-class…
PM Modi, CM Raje get mocked for keeping mum about cow vigilante terrorism while tweeting about Stockholm attack
PM Narendra Modi tweets about everything on this planet including wishing people on their birthdays, remember people on their death anniversaries, retweeting other people’s tweets during campaigns like #SelfieWithDaugther and…
Cow-vigilante violence reaches Bengal: BJP youth leader who led brutal attack in Durgapur still at large
Almost a week after a group of men assaulted, tied up and paraded several Muslim persons in West Bengal’s Durgapur district while accusing them of being Bangladeshi intruders smuggling cattle,…
A beef over buff: Vigilantes in Aligarh assaulted Muslims over buffalo meat, booked them for cow slaughter
A strange series events unfolded in Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh in the last week of May. A mob with links to Hindutva groups brutally thrashed four Muslim men over suspicion of…
Bengaluru: Cow-vigilante’s false dog-meat claim triggers flurry of communal misinformation
Chaos ensued at the Bengaluru railway station on July 25 after a large shipment of meat reached there from Jaipur. In a video that has since gone viral on social…
An MBA from Australia, Neha Patel now leads violent cow-vigilantes in Gujarat
On August 7, Anil Gamit, a resident of Mangaldev village in Gujarat’s Tapi district, was returning to his village with nine buffalo calves in a pick-up truck with another person…
Violence in the name of cows: The ‘animal welfare’ groups that beat up truck drivers in India
This story was originally published on Bellingcat and has been republished by Alt News as part of an editorial collaboration between the two organisations. They describe themselves as “cow protectors”…
Dozens arrested in Odisha after 2 Dalit men tortured on false charges of cow smuggling
Incidents of violence by so-called cow protection groups affiliated to Hindutva outfits have been on the rise in several north Indian states. Now, one such incident has come to light…
Clipped video of Priyank Kharge’s address to cops shared with false claim of ‘promoting cow-slaughter’
A 30-second clip of Karnataka minister Priyank Kharge holding a meeting with police officers is being shared on social media with the claim that he is instructing the police to…