SRINAGAR, INDIA - Indian police said on Thursday they are investigating a case of a Muslim man suspected to have been killed by so-called Hindu cow vigilantes.
Nayeem Ahmed Shah, thought to be 50, was shot in the head and died on the spot, police said, while another man Yasin Hussain accompanying him was injured."We are investigating the angle of cow vigilantism," inspector general of police for the region, M K Sinha said, adding that seven suspects were taken into custody for questioning.
Hindus consider cows sacred and their slaughter is banned across much of India, including in the Muslim-majority state of Jammu and Kashmir.
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