Five people, who are part of a cow vigilante group, have been arrested for allegedly beating a migrant worker from West Bengal to death in Haryana‘s Charkhi Dadri district over suspicion that he had eaten beef, police said on Saturday.
According to a senior police officer, Sabir Malik was killed on August 27.
Suspecting that the victim had eaten beef, the accused — Abhishek, Mohit, Ravinder, Kamaljit and Sahil — called Malik at a shop under the pretense of selling empty plastic bottles and then beat him, the officer said.