Umar Mohammed, Transporting Pet Cows, Shot Dead in Alwar

Mahtab Alam, executive editor of The Wire Urdu, interviews activist Kavita Srivastava about the lynching of Umar Mohammed in Alwar.

Months after a 55-year-old dairy farmer, Pehlu Khan, was assaulted by self-styled cow vigilantes for ‘illegally’ transporting cattle in Rajasthan’s Alwar district, another dairy farmer in the state, Umar Mohammed (35), was allegedly shot dead and later thrown on railway tracks by cow vigilantes in Bharatpur on November 10. He was transporting cows to his home in Ghatmeeka in Pahari tehsil of the district.