The accused persons looted the truck loaded with cattle when it was moving towards a gaushala. The Uttar Pradesh police reached the spot immediately after being informed.
Another case of purported love jihad came to the fore from Rae Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh where a Muslim youth named Mohammad Ansari hid his religious identity and posed as a Hindu to trap a Hindu widow in his love affair.
OpIndia fact-checked this matter to discover that the fight involved two groups of Muslims and no Hindu person was involved in the matter. OpIndia also obtained a copy of an FIR registered in this case.
The Uttar Pradesh police said that preliminary prove revealed that the woman was pregnant and the husband suspected that the child belonged to his younger brother
According to the FIR, Tasavvar and Ghiyasuddin's negligence was to blame for the deaths in the accident. The two accused named in the FIR have been charged under sections 304 and 268 of the IPC.
Muslims had claimed that Chamunda Mata Temple construction in Morabadabad was illegal, but Police confirmed that it is legal and it is on private land of Hindus
BJP MLA Sushil Singh told OpIndia that Mukhtar Ansari got at least 100 of his political opponents killed. It is alleged that these murders continued unabated under the patronage of the Samajwadi Party government.