A battle half owned by villagers in Basanti
Aamjhara Shikari
Para is a small village under Basanti police station in the district of South
24 Parganas. This is a totally Hindu populated village where there are only two
houses belong to Muslims. One marriage ceremony is supposed to take place in
one of those houses today and as per custom, the reception was due yesterday.
Local Hindus
came to know that Julman Khan, father of the bride, had a plan to slaughter a
cow in the village for that reception. He brought a cow for that purpose. The
Hindu villagers approached local Hindu Samhati workers and sought their help.
Then they jointly went to Julman’s house and strongly opposed the idea of cow
slaughter within the village.
Julman Khan was
adamant to slaughter the cow. Hence he called Shaidul Laskar – a local
anti-social from nearby place of Shimultala. Shaidul came with his gang in
support of Julman Khan. They threatened local villagers with severe
consequences if they put any hindrance to the slaughtering of cow at that very
place. But villagers under the leadership of Hindu Samhati refused to bow down
before their threat. A clash became inevitable between them but local police
somehow got the news and came to the place. After strong protest from local
villagers police asked Shaidul and his men not to slaughter cow in this predominantly
Hindu village. Ultimately local villagers won the battle of nerve. Actually it
is half owned battle, bcoz that Julman Khan took the cow to a mosque in
neighbouring village, slaughtered there and brought the beef to his house for cooking.
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