"The first person who started beating these men was Nitin, a college president, and the other was Deepak, who is currently absconding.

''After that, two more joined the mob.

''The last one who we arrested was a passerby who was going with cremation material to prepare for his father's funeral.

''He stopped by and he too started beating these men."

Alwar Superintendent of Police Rahul Prakash claims that the local police has filed cases against 14 people under the Rajasthan Bovine Animal Act and Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, and are deeming them as cow smugglers.

The Alwar SP is categorical that the 15 men from Haryana's Mewat district -- including Pehlu Khan who was beaten up by a mob in Rajasthan's Alwar district on suspicion of smuggling cows -- had no verified documents to prove that they were in the dairy business and not cow smugglers. 

Read Prasanna D Zore's interview with the Alwar SP here.