Sumedha Sharma
Gurugram, June 26
A day after suspected smugglers reportedly open fired at a cow vigilante at Bisaru village in Nuh, vigilante groups have issued a diktat to their members to apply for arms licence for their security.
The members have been asked to apply for licences in bulk and the groups have asked the state government to help them, citing increased attacks by cattle smugglers.
‘Need to protect our men’
The vigilante groups claim that the threat to ‘gau-rakshaks’ has increased. “We have issued an alert to all our members to be cautious and to procure arms licence for security. The police have assured us that they will nab the accused, but we need to have a strategy to protect our men,” says Shrikant Mewati, in charge of a cow vigilante group in Mewat.
Daya Ram (42), who was attacked, is a trader and actively involved with various cow vigilante groups. The police has registered a case under the Arms Act and launched a manhunt to nab the offenders who were travelling in a pick-up van at the time of the crime.
“I had gone to a Shiva temple situated near my house in the morning. Just as I approached the gate, a pick-up van with five men accosted me. I ran inside a dharamshala after they started throwing stones at me. They then opened fire at me. Some rounds hit the main gate of the dharamshala. I had a narrow escape,” said Daya Ram.
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