In a fresh twist in the Dadri lynching case, a report prepared by a forensic lab in Mathura has concluded that the meat found in the victim’s house was beef, eight months after the attack set of a fierce debate over intolerance.
The finding was in contrast to the preliminary report of an enquiry by the Uttar Pradesh Veterinary department which said the meat over which Mohammad Akhlaq, 52, was lynched on September 28 last year in Dadri was mutton of ‘goat progeny’.
Immediately after the news broke out, ‘Dadri’ was trending on Twitter… no surprises there. The manner in which many Twitter users directly or indirectly justified the killing is shocking to say the least.
What these people posted took bigotry and insensitivity to another level.
@abhijitmajumder Oh, Akhlaq killing was justified. He stole and killed and ate a cow. Hindu sensibilities do matter.
— Anuj Kadyan (@chhedisinghji) May 31, 2016
@scroll_in Killing 1 Cow = killing 1000 humans, cow killer don’t have right to live
— रुद्रप्रताबमोदी (@rudrapratabmodi) May 31, 2016
@BDUTT this Aflaf chap got what he deserved #DadriReport #Dadri
— जय श्री राम (@sunil_kachroo) June 1, 2016
@sagarikaghose U may or may not get killed for eating BEEFbut U get killed for COW THEFT and eating.#DadriRE https://t.co/crjQUmJZSy
— African हिन्दुस्तानी (@Tosh_Tiwari) May 31, 2016
They even dragged in poor Shaktiman, the deceased police horse, into the debate. Talk about losing the plot.
.@sardesairajdeep No, the loony argument is for Shaktiman you shed tears, for poor holy cow, no tears. Why the bigotry?
— Varun Sharma (@LogicalHindu_) May 31, 2016
.If Akhlaq was Anand: “How 1 can kill innocent animal” #Shaktiman @sardesairajdeep
— Dr. Urchin Spock (@UrchinSpock) May 31, 2016
@htTweets @LalitaPanicker people were crying for the horse in uttarkhand and silent now
— Sharad Varshney (@sharadvarshney) June 1, 2016
For all the canines that howled Dadri Dadri Intolerance Intolerance Intolerance .. @ndtv @arvindkejriwal @indiatoday pic.twitter.com/xgeDk6XqMZ
— MediaCrooks (@mediacrooks) May 31, 2016
@Joydas @sadhavi Why CBI enquiry refused by his family? Such kabhi na kabhi to bahar aayega hi.
— VSK (@vskulkarni27) June 1, 2016
@sardesairajdeep Nobody should live hope Hindus would accept cow killing for appeasing Muslims they have to change there food habbits .
— Manish Sood (@ManishS77351826) June 1, 2016
@sardesairajdeep so U are fine to kill a cow, claim it to be goat &blame BJP for the crime that Akhlaq family?No Place for Hindu Sentiments
— NRI-BJP (@saur008) May 31, 2016
Having said that, some were more outraged against the ‘sickular’ media for painting ‘Hindus’ is badlight.
@sagarikaghose @ndtv Akhlaq stole a cow & had its meat.U congi pet presstitutes deliberately twisted facts & defamed nation as intolerant
— Ashish Chauhan (@aachauhan2011) May 31, 2016
@BDUTT what changes is- it tears of the secular burkhaExposes how vigilante justice was painted as communal kill to demonize entire nation.
— D¹° (@DhanushKool) June 1, 2016
@sardesairajdeep no it simply means #itwasBEEF and not MEAT which u morons were screeching ur lungs out!!! @malviyamit @vermaaakash10
— Ravijot Singh (@NationalistRavi) May 31, 2016
And many were content with it now being a ‘killing due to suspected theft’ and not a ‘communal’ incident.
@BDUTT It does not change the crime, but may change the motive of the crime,from ‘Communal murder’ to ‘killed due to suspected cattle theft’
— Raju Das | ৰাজু দাস (@rajudasonline) June 1, 2016
No but if lynched for stealing cow as opposed to his religion,could b relevant piece of evidence to establish motive pic.twitter.com/l8kEUGvltF
— Rupa Subramanya (@rupasubramanya) May 31, 2016
Of course, there were those sane voices which reinstated your faith in humanity and society, but those voices are only a fraction of the overwhelming bigots out there, who actually have the temerity to justify the lynching.
