CPM’s farmer body donates Rs 3 lakh to Pahlu Khan’s family

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IndiaTomorrow.net,
New Delhi, April 20: The All India Kisan Sabha, the peasants’ union of Communist Party of India (Marxist), on Wednesday gave a cheque of Rs three lakh to the family of Haryana dairy farmer Pahlu Khan who was lynched by a gang of alleged gau rakshaks, cow protectors on the first of this month in Alwar district of Rajasthan.

At their massive protest demonstration for land rights, held at Jantar Mantar in the National Capital, the leaders of Kisan Sabha, presented the cheque to family members of Pahlu Khan.

Khan, his two sons and a relative and neighbour Azmat Khan were brutally assaulted by the gang of cow vigilantes when they were returning from Jaipur after purchasing some cows and calves at a government-run cattle fair.

The showed the valid documents of purchase to the attackers but they didn’t heed and mercilessly assaulted them. Pahlu Khan, 50, succumbed to injured at a local hospital.

Some of the attackers have been arrested and a case of murder has been lodged against them. However, the Rajasthan government of BJP has not yet announced any compensation to the victim family. The gang of cow vigilantes had also taken valuables including Rs 75000 in cash from the dairy farmers.

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