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The Haryana police covered up the August 2013 murder of three young men by a mob of cow vigilantes. Five years on, the sole survivor is a wreck but the families of the murdered men still want justice.<\/i><\/p>\n

Neha Dixit<\/p>\n

Kherla (Haryana):\u00a0\u2018That drunkard? The one with a plastic leg? Arrey, mad Murshida\u2019s husband, na?\u2019<\/div>\n
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There are many ways in which Taufeeq is identified in Kherla, a small village with a population of 3,000 people, in the Punhana tehsil of Nuh district in Haryana.<\/div>\n
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This is the region where one year before Narendra Modi became prime minister and cow vigilantism slipped into high gear, a violent mob attacked four men, killing three, on suspicion of smuggling cows for slaughter. The man who survived was Taufeeq. But did he really?<\/div>\n
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Five years back, Taufeeq was full of the \u2018chirpiness and ambition of youth\u2019 as his uncle, Fateh, describes. When he was three, his mother passed away. His father turned blind when he was five. Fateh, his father\u2019s brother, stepped in to bring him up.<\/div>\n
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He lives in a mud hut on the land that belongs to his ancestors. \u201cThere are so many inheritors now that if it gets divided, Taufeeq won\u2019t even get land the size of his cot,\u201d says Fateh.<\/div>\n
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Taufeeq had wanted to construct his own brick house one day just as he was doing for others as a sought after mason five years back. But not any more. \u201cIt seems like the Taufeeq I brought up is lost. So much has changed in five years,\u201d says Fateh.<\/div>\n
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In 2011, since he had no land or money, he was married off to Murshida, a beautiful 17-year-old girl who is said to have spoken to a\u00a0jinniri<\/i>\u00a0that year. A jinniri is a female jinn, a supernatural creature from Islamic mythology. For some reason, the jinniri is only visible to Murshida and so when Murshida talks to her, it seems like she is talking to herself. Everyone thought that marriage would fix Murshida\u2019s jinniri problem. She would cook, clean and have children and then the jinniri would go away from Murshida\u2019s life. But that never happened. And within two years, Taufeeq tasted hell. \u00a0Courtesy the jinniri, say the villagers.<\/div>\n
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Taufeeq had the habit of hanging out with friends every evening. Most of them, just like him, had aspirations for a better life and more money and so they would keep coming up with business plans and giving them a shot. One such plan changed life forever.<\/p>\n

On August 6, 2013, just two days before Eid, four friends \u2013 Sahroon, Fareed, Sher Singh and Taufeeq \u2013 decided to travel to Delhi to buy clothes that they could sell to Eid shoppers in the Punhana market. It seemed like a great idea.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

They bought clothes worth Rs 30,000 from Lajpat Nagar, a well known retail market for budget shoppers in south Delhi. It was already past midnight. To save money on the fare for the cargo back home, they took a lift in a pick-up truck in Badarpur that was bound for Nuh. As they drove on, a car started trailing them. This continued for 15-20 km. At 2am, as soon as they approached Ankeer chowk near Surajkund in Faridabad district, they saw four cars with 20-30 policemen. Their truck slowed down because the driver had saved on the toll tax and was scared of being caught. Just then, they were hit by a dump truck from behind. The pick-up truck turned turtle on the adjacent footpath.<\/div>\n
As they struggled to get out of the truck, Taufeeq and his friends heard slogans which became louder and louder. \u2018Kill the cow smugglers! Don\u2019t spare the cow killers! Catch the butchers! Don\u2019t leave the\u00a0Musalmans<\/i>!\u00a0Gai mata ki jai<\/i>!\u2019<\/div>\n
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The mob of about 50 people ran towards them with lathis, swords, guns and sickles. The driver, still in the front, managed to run away. The mob charged at them. The assault which lasted ten minutes felt like an eternity. \u201cWe begged them to stop. Asked them to check the truck. But they kept calling us \u2018cow thieves\u2019 and \u2018butchers\u2019 and beat us like there was no tomorrow,\u201d Taufeeq recalls in a detached tone.<\/p>\n

They split Sahroon\u2019s head, broke Sher Singh\u2019s ribs and legs, broke Fareed\u2019s jaw and fired at his head. He recalls, \u201cI could see Fareed\u2019s entire set of teeth in his hand. We were four bodies lying in a pile on top of each other. I was right at the bottom of the pile. Probably that\u2019s why I survived.\u201d He adds,\u201cThe policemen, 30 of them, stood there and watched. They did not save us, did not stop the mob.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Fareed was crying, \u2018Allah, maar dihin.<\/i>\u00a0(Allah, they have killed me)\u2019, Taufeeq recalled. But the mob wasn\u2019t done. They chopped off his left leg from below the knee. \u201cI fainted, and woke up in hospital at 6 in the morning. By then, the other three were dead. Sher Singh and Fareed had perished at the spot. Sahroon died in the hospital,\u201d he says.<\/div>\n
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Taufeeq\u2019s head was split open, five of his ribs were broken, he had a fracture in his right hand, his jaw was dislocated and he had several injuries on his chest and left hand.<\/div>\n
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The next day, both the local media and the police described the vitims as \u2018cow smugglers\u2019. Newspapers announced that three cow smugglers had\u00a0died in a road accident<\/a>\u00a0in Faridabad. The FIR filed in the case by one Vijay Bhadana from Anangpur village in Faridabad claimed that the pick-up truck had stolen four of his cows from the village. When followed by their car, the truck in a bid to escape, lost its balance and turned over. Vijay Bhadana and some local Gujjar \u2018youth\u2019 tried to stop them. \u00a0In the accident, three out of the four cow smugglers died. The FIR also claims that two out of four cows cows died in an accident. Within a matter of hours the mob lynching officially was declared as an \u2018accident\u2019 by the police.<\/div>\n
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The headline says three cattle smugglers die in a road accident. The truth is that they were killed by a mob even as the police stood by watching. Credit: Neha Dixit.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Bhagwan Das, Sher Singh\u2019s father, who is a landless Dalit and lives in Paimakheda village, 15 km from Kherla contests the claim. Sher Singh was the eldest son and the sole earning member in the family. He made a living as a jalebi hawker and had two kids. He says, \u201cThe pictures from the sight of the accident had no cows. The mob beat them up on mere suspicion of cow smuggling.\u201d None of the families have been given post mortem reports. \u201cIn the last five years, I have been to BK hospital every month to ask for the post mortem report. They abuse us and send us off because they don\u2019t want us to present evidence in the court that these boys died because of lynching and not in an accident.,\u201dhe says.<\/div>\n
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Bhagwan Das says he is not fighting for compensation. \u201cI want the police who stood watching while the mob killed these boys [to be made accountable] \u2013 the cops who lied and made the case of lynching a road accident on paper,\u201d he says.<\/div>\n
Fareed\u2019s wife, Najma, who now works as a farm labourer to raise three of her children, also asks, \u201cHe had a bullet injury in his head and his legs were broken. How does that happen in a case of road accident?\u201d<\/div>\n
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The incident took place in 2013 when the Congress-led coalition was in power at the centre. Haryana too was ruled by a Congress government. In the name of cow protection, violent cow vigilantism was prevalent even then. But such activities gained new legitimacy and ideological currency during the BJP\u2019s campaign leading up to the 2014 general elections. And even more so after the party came to power at the centre, and in the state, with a huge mandate.<\/div>\n
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In April 2014, just a month before general elections, the BJP\u2019s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi said that he\u00a0fears<\/a>\u00a0a \u2018pink revolution\u2019. This was in reference to the expansion of\u00a0the \u00a0meat export industry. The campaign promised that when the party comes to power, it will stop subsidies to those who engage in cow slaughter. This statement clearly indicated communal overtones targeting Muslim exporters. Similarly, in October 2014, just before the Haryana assembly elections, the party released a\u00a0manifesto<\/a>\u00a0that said \u2018if voted to power, BJP will take steps for stricter implementation of the laws against cow slaughter. The chairman of the manifesto committee, Ganeshi Lal, said cow slaughter will be equated with culpable homicide.\u2019 The BJP came to power in the state the same month.<\/div>\n
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The first case of cow vigilantism \u00a0to come to light after the 2014 elections was that of Mohammed Akhlaq, a 52-year-old man who was beaten to death by a mob with rods and sticks on accusation of slaughtering a cow and consuming beef on September 28, 2015. While an investigation concluded that he was not consuming beef, one of the key\u00a0accused<\/a>\u00a0in the case was the son of a BJP politician. Since then, the number of attacks on Muslims have swelled.<\/div>\n
According to a\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0by IndiaSpend, Muslims were the target of 52% of violence centred on bovine issues over nearly eight years (2010 to 2017) and comprised 84% of the 25 people killed in 60 incidents. As many as 97% of these incidents were reported after the Modi government came to power in May 2014, and half of the cow related incidents \u2013 30 out of 60 \u2013 were from states governed by the BJP until June 25, 2017. In June 2018, while listening to a petition on cow vigilantism, a Supreme Court bench\u00a0acknowledged<\/a>\u00a0that instead of putting down the activities of cow vigilante groups, there had been an increase in attacks. Observing that cow vigilantism was not \u201cpermissible\u201d, the court had said that \u201cthere has to be some kind of action\u201d.<\/div>\n
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It is dusk. Taufeeq does not have a phone. \u201cHe is usually found lying on the cot outside his house, drunk,\u201d replied a villager when asked where could one find him.<\/div>\n
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\u201cHe is elusive. It seems like he enjoys the chase. Some sadist pleasure, I think,\u201dsays Aarif, a local human rights activist who has known Taufeeq for five years.<\/div>\n
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Taufeeq turned up two hours later at his house. His body and his mud hut look alike. Worn out, chipped but surviving. He has a prosthetic right limb, his body is a little tilted towards the left and he has a swollen belly and a rod fitted stiff right hand. He has very angry, kohl lined eyes that turn red when he is angrier than his usual self. Mostly, when children run away with his plastic leg when he is sprawled on the cot, drunk. Which is almost everyday. And at other times, when too many questions are asked. Which is rare, like this evening, because not many dare to ask him questions any longer.<\/div>\n
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\u201cPeople say that\u00a0Musalmaans<\/i>\u00a0do not drink alcohol because it is haraam but Taufeeq is also setting a world record here,\u201d his uncle joked. Taufeeq was humiliated. \u201cI don\u2019t drink for pleasure. My body hurts so much. Alcohol is the only relief, \u201d he said.<\/div>\n
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He has lost many friends in the last five years. Firstly because of illness and immobility but more so because anyone who accompanies him will be declared a cow smuggler. Regardless of whether they are Hindu or Muslim. Some say \u2018Sher Singh lost his life because he was friends with Muslim boys.\u2019<\/div>\n
Sher Singh\u2019s father, Bhagwan Das, says that \u2018gau raksha\u2019 is a political issue to divide people on religious lines and break the Mewati unity. Mewat is referred to a geographical region with parts of UP, Rajasthan, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh. It has a distinct culture and dialect. Nuh district is also part of Mewat \u201cThe fact is that they hate Mewat. It is not about cows. They killed Pehlu. Was he killing a cow? They did that with Junaid too. He was on a train. Was he killing a cow? I am a Dalit but I know this is all a communal agenda. For votes.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Ramvati, mother of Sher Singh, killed by cow vigilantes on August 7, 2013, with a picture of her son. Credit: Neha Dixit<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Pehlu Khan, a dairy farmer from Nuh district was lynched by a mob in Alwar on March 31, 2017. Junaid, a 17 year old boy from Ballabgarh was beaten to death on board a train from Delhi by a mob on July 1, 2017.<\/div>\n
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It took Taufeeq three and a half years to recover and stand up on his feet. Activists like Aarif got a disability certificate for him to be able to procure a prosthetic limb.<\/div>\n
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He refers to the incident as \u2018hadsa\u2019 \u2013 \u00a0a calamity, a misfortune. And rarely talks about it. Perhaps, the retelling reignites feelings of anguish.<\/div>\n
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Did he ever think about filing a complaint, demanding an enquiry against the police.<\/div>\n
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\u201cNever. I don\u2019t want to talk about the\u00a0hadsa\u00a0<\/i>nor do I want to go to the police. Nothing will happen. This is my life. This is how it is meant to be,\u201d he says with a stoic resignation.<\/div>\n
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Dr. Himanshu Mohan Kumar, an international health consultant with expertise in mental health says that Taufeeq has typical symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder. \u00a0PTSD can make the task of maintaining mental stability extremely daunting. He says that Taufeeq\u2019s situation is similar. \u201cThe first kind of psychological issue people like Taufeeq face is that of fear and dejection. When no social support comes to fight the injustice they face. The personality that they have built over the years starts degenerating after facing this kind of trauma. Anyway, this personality is not strong for people like Taufeeq who face social marginalisation since their childhood on account of their religion and deprived financial background. They face second grade citizenry that makes the foundation of their personality really soft and vulnerable. Over a period of time, they become social isolates.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Since Taufeeq\u2019s miseries were also attributed to Murshida\u2019s jinniri and the bad luck it brings, it needed a fix. As a result, she bore a son who is now three years old and a daughter who is one now. Murshida, 23, is even more delirious now. \u201cShe sits the whole day in the sun talking to the jinniri. Her hair is matted and her clothes unwashed. She does not even take care of the children,\u201d says Fateh.<\/div>\n
And Taufeeq has no interest in his children either. \u201cWhen he recovered, there were days when he would come up with job ideas because he could no more work as a mason or a farm labourer due to the prosthetic limb. Now, he just does not talk. And mostly opens his mouth to abuse and throw barbs at Murshida or to beat up the children,\u201d says Jamaal, his cousin. The children are at the mercy of the neighbours and distant relatives. \u201cAllah knows, what they will turn out to be to see a mad mother and abusive father.\u00a0Local activists bought a fruit cart for Taufeeq to make a living but he has instead rented it out to someone else and spends all the rent on alcohol.\u00a0There is no money for food and no talk of constructing the brick house either.<\/div>\n
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Dr. Himanshu says that clinically, Taufeeq has gone through a period of acute anxiety. \u201cIn such a condition, they see no positivity around them and start thinking about how their future is spoilt, they have lost alignment with society and financial worry also sets in. This acute anxiety goes away in some time when they emerge as a survivor temporarily. It is in this period, they start recounting what actually happened to them. Event by event. That makes them feel let down by society. That\u2019s when depression sets in.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Taufeeq tells Aarif, \u201cIt is better for people who die. Survival is not good.\u201d He walks away and does not return.<\/div>\n
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Meanwhile, his village, Kherla, referred to as \u2018the hub of criminals\u2019 in\u00a0newspaper reports<\/a>, is being developed as a tourist village in Haryana. This year, NGO workers in collaboration with state government are painting stars, moons, twigs and flowers on the village walls as a sign of liberation and freedom. One depicts a girl on a swing, the other shows birds flying out of cages. This February, Taufeeq chased away some painters who tried to paint his mud hut by hurling \u00a0stones at them, yelling, \u201cLeave my broken mud hut alone. Stop the drama!\u201d<\/div>\n
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Fateh says Murshida\u2019s jinniri is slowly taking over Taufeeq too.<\/p>\n

This article was published by TheWire.in on April 12, 2018
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