The case of violence related to cattle has increased very fast after the formation of the government of the Bharatiya Janata Party led by Narendra Modi at the Centre. According to the data website India Spend report, between the years 2010 to 2017, 57 percent of the victims were muslims in the violence related to the cattle. During this period, 86 percent of those who died in the violence related to the cattle were Muslims. In these eight years, 63 incidents took place, in which 28 Indians lost their life. 97 percent cases of violence related to cattle have occurred after the arrival of the Narendra Modi government in the centre. Narendra Modi took over the power of the centre in May 2014. India Spand has done this analysis based on data till June 25, 2017.

On Thursday (June 29th) Modi said in Ahmedabad of Gujarat that murder can not be accepted in the name of cow-worship and no one has the right to take law in his hand.

During this period, 24 of the 28 people who were killed in the case of violence related to the cattle were 24 Muslims (about 86 percent). In these incidents 124 people were injured. More than half the cases of cow-related violence (about 52 percent) were due to false rumors.

According to the report, cases related to the crime given by the Central Government or the state government are not shown separately in the cases of violence and murder done by cattle or crowd. In 32 out of 63 cases of violence related to cow were registered in BJP ruled states. There were eight cases in the Congress ruled states. The rest of the cases were held by other parties ruled states.

According to the report of India Spend, in the year 2017, there has been unprecedented increase in cases related to cow related violence. In the first six months of this year, 20 cases related to the cow were more than two-thirds of the total violence in 2016. From year 2010 to this year, the highest number of violence related to cattle was done in the year 2016. These cases include cases of attack by the crowd, attacks by cow guards, assassination, attempt to murder, harassment, gang rape etc. In two cases the victims were tied with chains and nude and beaten. The victims were hanged in two cases.

Most of the cases of violence related to cattle were recorded in Uttar Pradesh (10). After that, registered in Haryana (9), Gujarat (6), Karnataka (6), Madhya Pradesh (4), Delhi (4) and Rajasthan (4). Of these, 21 percent of cases were registered in south or eastern India (including Bengal and Odisha). In the North-Eastern India, only one case of violence related to cattle has been recorded. After coming to power of BJP, on April 30, 2017, two people of Assam were murdered in a dispute over the cattle.

In the last eight years, 61 out of 63 cases of cow-related violence were made after the formation of the Narendra Modi government in the centre. In the year 2016, 26 cases of violence related to cattle were registered. So far 20 cases of such violence have been registered till June 25, 2017. There is no information about the arrest of the accused in nearly five percent cases. In the same 13 cases (about 21 percent), the police registered cases against the victims.

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