Bishada News

Dadri's Bishada village, where Akhlaq was lynched by a mob following rumours of killing a cow and eating beef, is all set to undergo a purification ceremony.

Amidst a fragile calm in Bishada, days after the lynching incident, senior Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan attacked Bharatiya Janata Party's state legislator Sangeet Som, saying he is conspiring to kill him.

Shaken by the beef lynching episode, the troubled Bishada village in the district is agog with activity on Saturday with Hindus joining their Muslim brethren in making preparations for the wedding of two girls belonging to the minority community.

Locals of Bishada village in Uttar Pradesh's Dadri on Friday welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks that Hindus and Muslims should work together to fight poverty than with each other, saying his comments will have "deep impact" in improving situation in the hamlet where a man was lynched to death following rumour of beef eating.

An outfit floated by BJP MP Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday offered all possible help "including guns" to the Hindus of Bishada village, as it alleged that they were being hounded following the lynching of Mohammed Iqlakh.

A week into the lynching of Mohammad Iqlakh, residents of Dadri's Bishada nurse a deep resentment over being "unfairly victimised" as visitors make a beeline to the crime spot in the village where shards of glasses, broken sewing machines and a battered refrigerator mutely testifying the fateful night of September 28.

Situation in Dadri's Bishada village, where a 50-year-old man was bludgeoned to death over rumours of eating beef, is gradually limping back to normalcy with shops reopening and villagers returning back to their routine life, District Magistrate NP Singh said on Tuesday night.

The district administration at Gautam Budh Nagar on Monday held meeting with the village head of Bishada and other nearby villages and asked them to cooperate to put a check on rumours, especially over carcasses which are believed to led to lynching of a man.

Tension on Monday spread to nearby areas of Bishada after meat pieces were found in an adjoining village even as the District Magistrate decided to further restrict entry of visitors to the troubled spot and examine statements made by controversial BJP MLA Sangeet Som during his visit to the area.

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Uneasy calm on Saturday prevailed in Bishada village where a man was lynched over suspected beef consumption as Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal paid a visit to the bereaved family, with the latter deprecating attempts to communalizing the tragedy.