Another four days and it will be two months since a man was lynched and another seriously injured by a mob over allegations of slaughtering a cow in Hapur.


While 45-year-old Qasim, from Pilkhuwa, succumbed to injuries, 65-year-old Samiuddin of Madapur village, is battling for his life at a hospital in Ghaziabad.


The Supreme Court yesterday took note of a petition by Samiuddin that he and his kin were living in a state of fear as the police forced them to lodge of compliant of road rage instead of lynching over alleged cow slaughter.


The apex court directed a senior Uttar Pradesh police officer to probe the Hapur lynching, terming the allegations of the survivor as "serious". During a conversation with PTI, locals of Madapur said Samiuddin had to attend a funeral on June 18.


"Samiuddin's son had gone to another village for work (as a construction labourer). Who else would fetch fodder for his cattle? Unsure of when he would return from the funeral, Samiuddin decided to cut the jowar before going out,' a man from the village said. -- PTI