The editor of Urdu newspaper Nai Duniya, Shahid Siddiqui and former Customs Commissioner Syed Mahmood Akhtar are also the signatories.The incident occurred on Saturday afternoon in Alahdadpur village in Aligarh distict when the traders — Nadeem, Aqeel, Arbaz, and Qadeem — were intercepted while transporting meat from a licensed factory. They were reportedly stripped and brutally assaulted with rods, bricks, and sharp weapons. The victims sustained grievous injuries, and three of them are said to be in a critical condition in the hospital.“The vehicle they were travelling in, which belonged to Al-Ammar Frozen Foods Exports Pvt. Ltd. – a licensed buffalo meat exporter – was vandalised and set on fire. The victims were allegedly extorted by self-styled “cow protection” groups, and upon refusal, they were beaten black and blue. This act is a blatant, vicious act of cow terrorism, which is condemnable in the strongest terms possible,” the group also wrote.The signatories requested Yogi to take the tenets of law and justice to their ‘logical conclusion without yielding to pressures of any kind’ in the matter. “You are requested to kindly direct the concerned authorities and issue directions to conclusively provide legal, judicial, affirmative redressal to the victims who are currently in critical conditions in the hospital, while simultaneously ensuring that such incidents are never repeated in future,” they stated.
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