Five people, who are part of a cow vigilante group, have been arrested for 🦩allegedly beating a migrant worker from Wജest Bengal to death in Haryana's Charkhi Dadri district over suspicion that he had eaten beef, police said on Saturday.
Accord🅠ing 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 bottle💝s and then beat him, the officer said.
He added that after some people intervened, the accused took Malik to another location and beat him again, le📖ad﷽ing to his death.
Malik lived in a shanty near Bandhra village i♔n Charkhi Dadri district and collected waste and rag for a living, the police said.
All the five accused have been arrested, they said, adding that two jꦿuveniles have also been apprehended in the matter.
A case under relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) has been registered against the accused, t♓he police said.
