A disturbing video shows nearly a dozen men interrogating Ashraf Munyar over a meat-like substance in two plastic boxes he was carrying. The elderly man was slapped and abused on a moving train by co-passengers who suspected him of carrying beef. Despite the horror unfolding, many onlookers did nothing to help. Munyar, visibly shaken, explained he was taking the meat for his daughter’s family, but the men, dissatisfied, continued to question and record him, eventually revealing the meat was buffalo.
The Maharashtra Animal Preservation Act bans cow slaughter but not buffalo, yet the men insisted on testing the meat. During the holy month of Shravan, some of the men expressed outrage over Munyar’s actions. The Railway Commissioner confirmed the incident, and an FIR has been registered. The Government Railway Police (GRP) is searching for the attackers, two of whom have been identified as residents of Dhule.
After the video went viral, the GRP contacted Munyar, who initially hesitated to file a complaint. Meanwhile, Jitendra Awhad from Sharad Pawar’s NCP camp criticized the incident, decrying the state of law and order in Maharashtra. He condemned the attackers, highlighting that most of Maharashtra’s population is non-vegetarian and emphasizing respect for all religions.
Awhad questioned how such violence could happen based on mere suspicion and lamented the loss of Maharashtra’s cultural values. He pointed out that beating an elderly man, who could be as old as their fathers, was shameful and not representative of the state’s true culture.
