New Delhi: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday strongly pitched for an all-India law against cow slaughter and asked the vigilante groups to obey the law while espousing the cause of protecting the animal.
The RSS chief said the work of cow protection should be continued by obeying the law.
"Any violence in the name of cow slaughter defames the cause and the law must be obeyed," he said.
The incident, which comes two years a similar mob lynching in Dadri town of Uttar Pradesh, also found an echo in the Supreme Court which took note of a plea demanding ban on cow vigilante groups in five BJP-ruled states and Karnataka where the Congress is in power.
On April 3, alleged cow vigilantes in Alwar stopped a truck carrying cows from a cattle fair and thrashed its occupants on April 3 leading to the death of Pehlu Khan.
Such incidents have been reported in past from Maharashtra when on August 21, 2016, a group allegedly chased two trucks carrying bullocks and tried to intercept them without informing the police.
In Uttar Pradesh, 'gau rakshaks' on August 10, 2016 had allegedly thrashed four persons whom they suspected to be "cow thieves" near Jiroli village in Aligarh district.
(With PTI inputs)
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