Vigilantes apprehend 2 with cow carcasses near Signature Bridge

A group of self-proclaimed cow vigilantes kept two people, including a minor, restrained for hours near the Signature Bridge in northeast Delhi on Monday morning and posted about it live on social media, before eventually police made arrests over the alleged cow slaughter.

- Jignasa Sinha and Varun Bhandari

According to officials, a police team was called to the spot around 8.20am and two individuals-Faizan Khan. 27, and a 16-year-old boy were apprehended on suspicion of cow slaughter.

The police said the two were found along with cow vigilante Rupesh Rana alias Rocky, a cow vigilante. Rana posted a video stating that at 4.30am on Monday, he and his group reached the Yamuna floodplains near the Signature Bridge, allegedly after receiving a "tip-off", and "caught" two people in a white Hyundai Santro, purportedly with cow carcasses.

"We had been receiving inputs for days about the movement of cow slaughters near Signature Bridge. Today, we caught them when they were going to take the cow meat to northeast Delhi and Uttar Pradesh for restaurants and street-side dhabas," Rana told HT.

Rana also posted a video of the alleged incident on social media, in which two people could be seen in a car, the windows of which were shattered.

The purported cow carcasses were kept beside the vehicle.