Overview

• On Tuesday night activists from Hindu Yuva Vahini, Bajrang Dal and allied outfits halted a Mohali-bound truck near Amrala village alleging it carried banned cow carcasses and pelts
• The mob assaulted the driver and co-driver, set fire to the vehicle’s tarpaulin and staged a sit-in blockade on the Bhojpur-Pilkhuwa Road that disrupted traffic for nearly two hours
• Police intervened with lathi-charges and summoned reinforcements from Modinagar, Niwari and Muradnagar before placing the two truck occupants in protective custody
• Authorities have registered separate FIRs—one against the truck crew for transporting banned meat and another against the activists for rioting, vandalism and arson
• The episode follows a string of cow vigilantism attacks in Uttar Pradesh, underscoring persistent communal tensions and testing the state’s law and order response