Monu had claimed that they had rescued a cow from the car and taken the injured to hospital. The police said a Santro car with Varis and two others, Shokeen and Nafis, had rammed into a tempo near Khori Kalan village on Tauru-Bhiwadi road on Saturday.

Just days prior to that, the family of 22-year-old Varis had accused cow vigilantes, including Monu, of thrashing him to death after branding him a cow smuggler in Nuh district of Haryana, though police had said he died in a road accident. The Haryana police last month filed two FIRs on his complaints. Monu has, however, claimed that he has been receiving death threats from suspected smugglers. AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi has alleged that the BJP government was shielding such vigilantes. There have been allegations that cow protection groups have been targeting a particular community and indulging in high-handedness. After this law, a number of cow protection groups, including those already present, became visibly active. Under the Gauvansh Sanrakshan and Gausamvardhan Act that was implemented in 2015, cow slaughter in Haryana attracted rigorous imprisonment ranging from three years to 10 years. He received a silver play button from YouTube in October last year as the number of subscribers crossed one lakh.Īlso Read: Haryana Horror: Burnt Bodies of two Rajasthan men Found in car Kin Allege Abduction by Bajrang Dal Members He has 83,000 followers on Facebook and more than 2 lakh subscribers on YouTube. The videos, mostly live streams, have thousands of views and comments. He is now the district president of Bajrang Dal and frequently courts controversy over the actions of his own cow protection group and shares videos of vigilantes chasing, confronting and nabbing alleged cow smugglers. He joined the Bajrang Dal as a co-coordinator in his home district Manesar in 2011 and was a member of the district cow protection task force formed by authorities after Haryana's cow protection law came into force in December 2015. He also shared CCTV footage from the hotel on social media. A member of the Bajrang Dal, 30-year-old Monu in a video message denied his involvement in the case and claimed he was at a hotel at the time of the incident.

Gurugram: Mohit Yadav alias Monu Manesar, who is evading arrest in the murder case of two men in Rajasthan, became a prominent face of cow vigilantism in Haryana during the last five years - helped by his presence on social media.

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