Police charge sheet Gau Raksha Dal chief

Aman Sood

Tribune News Service

Rajpura, November 2

The Patiala police have accused Gau Raksha Dal’s state chief Satish Kumar of serious charges such as sodomy, extortion and abduction with the intent to hurt and wrongful confinement, in a challan. An FIR against him was registered in August, a day after Prime Minister Narender Modi asked states to rein in “gau rakshaks”. He was subsequently arrested and is in jail.

In the 10-page challan presented in the Rajpura court, the Patiala police have claimed that they have completed the investigations against the accused and his accomplices. A Scorpio car, swords, rods, sticks have been recovered, reads the challan, a copy of which is with The Tribune.

It further mentions what a Saharanpur-based victim had revealed on how the gang allegedly used ruthless ways to punish people accused by them of transporting cows for slaughtering. “Once at the cow shelter, they removed my clothes and one of the gang members had unnatural sex with me in the presence of others. The ordeal didn’t end here. Satish pissed in my mouth and beat me up as I cried for help,” reads the statement of a victim in the challan.

The challan shows that the accused snatched money from victims, sodomised them and in one particular case, Satish Kumar and his co-accused urinated in the mouth of one of the victims. Some of the victims alleged they were transporting cattle from their dairy farm when the accused caught hold of them and snatched Rs 1 lakh along with their cattle. They were tortured, the money was divided and the cows were kept by the accused, reads the challan.

The police have, however, failed to trace a couple of bank accounts of the accused that were allegedly closed a few days before the crime came to light. “We are working on it,” the police said.

An FIR against the accused was registered on August 6, two years after their videos of brutally beating cattle transporters went viral. The Punjab police booked the self-styled cow group president on serious charges of abduction with the intent to hurt, wrongful confinement etc. Other accused were Arun, Kapil, Gurpreet and others.