Gurugram: Mohit Yadav alias Monu Manesar, who is evading arrest within the homicide case of two males in Rajasthan, grew to become a outstanding face of cow vigilantism in Haryana over the last 5 years – helped by his presence on social media. A member of the Bajrang Dal, 30-year-old Monu in a video message denied his involvement within the case and claimed he was at a lodge on the time of the incident. He additionally shared CCTV footage from the lodge on social media. He joined the Bajrang Dal as a co-coordinator in his house district Manesar in 2011 and was a member of the district cow safety process power shaped by authorities after Haryana’s cow safety legislation got here into power in December 2015. He is now the district president of Bajrang Dal and incessantly courts controversy over the actions of his personal cow safety group and shares movies of vigilantes chasing, confronting and nabbing alleged cow smugglers. The movies, largely stay streams, have hundreds of views and feedback.
He has 83,000 followers on Facebook and greater than 2 lakh subscribers on YouTube. He acquired a silver play button from YouTube in October final yr because the variety of subscribers crossed one lakh.
Under the Gauvansh Sanrakshan and Gausamvardhan Act that was carried out in 2015, cow slaughter in Haryana attracted rigorous imprisonment starting from three years to 10 years. After this legislation, quite a few cow safety teams, together with these already current, grew to become visibly energetic. There have been allegations that cow safety teams have been focusing on a specific neighborhood and indulging in high-handedness. AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi has alleged that the BJP authorities was shielding such vigilantes.
Monu has, nevertheless, claimed that he has been receiving demise threats from suspected smugglers. The Haryana police final month filed two FIRs on his complaints. Just days previous to that, the household of 22-year-old Varis had accused cow vigilantes, together with Monu, of beating him to demise after branding him a cow smuggler in Nuh district of Haryana, although police had stated he died in a highway accident.
The police stated a Santro automotive with Varis and two others, Shokeen and Nafis, had rammed right into a tempo close to Khori Kalan village on Tauru-Bhiwadi highway on Saturday. Monu had claimed that they’d rescued a cow from the automotive and brought the injured to hospital.
“I went live on Facebook and also asked the name of one of the injured, but we did not hurt any of them,” he had stated. He is now among the many 5 accused within the case wherein the charred our bodies of two Muslim males from Rajasthan had been present in a automotive in Haryana’s Bhiwani after they had been allegedly kidnapped by cow vigilantes.
Nasir (25) and Junaid alias Juna (35), each residents of Ghatmeeka village in Bharatpur district of Rajasthan, had been allegedly kidnapped on Wednesday and their our bodies had been discovered inside a burnt automotive in Loharu in Bhiwani in Haryana on Thursday morning. However, Monu Manesar had claimed his innocence on this case.
“My colleagues and I have no role but Rajasthan Police registered a case against me and my group members. I don’t even know the deceased,” he had stated in his video message.
Rajasthan police has launched a manhunt for him.
The Gurugram police in Haryana additionally carried out raids to nab him in a case of homicide try which was registered in opposition to him on February 7 at Pataudi police station, stated officers.
According to police, a brawl broke out between two teams in Pataudi’s Baba Shah Mohalla when Monu Manesar was there alongside together with his staff. A grievance was filed by Mubin Khan, a resident of the identical locality, who stated that his son Mohin was shot at throughout firing in two teams and acquired a bullet harm.
Following the grievance of Mubin Khan, an FIR was registered underneath Section 307 (try to homicide) in opposition to Monu and others on the Pataudi police station. “In the case of murder attempt, Monu Manesar is wanted and we are also conducting raids to nab him”, stated Manbir Singh, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Manesar. After finishing class 12, Monu had joined a polytechnic.
