{"id":6861,"date":"2019-07-20T09:54:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T04:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=6861"},"modified":"2019-07-20T09:54:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T04:54:32","slug":"mob-in-india-kills-three-on-suspicion-of-cattle-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/6861","title":{"rendered":"Mob in India kills three on suspicion of cattle theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">A mob in an Indian village of Bihar state has beaten to death three men suspected of trying to steal cattle.<\/p>\n<p>This is the latest in a spate of &#8220;cow vigilante&#8221; attacks that have provoked alarm among religious minorities and socially underprivileged classes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The three men were caught by some villagers in Saran district&#8217;s Pithauri village early on Friday while trying to load cattle on a pick-up truck, according to the police officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;They were trying to load a buffalo and a calf when some villagers woke up and took the three into their custody and beat them up to death,&#8221; they added.<\/p>\n<p>At least one of the dead was Muslim. A fourth man was in critical condition in hospital after the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Police have filed a case of theft against the three men, and the villagers face a separate case of murder filed by the victims\u2019 families, naming three accused people, although more names are likely to be added.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been criticised for not condemning the attacks quickly or strongly enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mob in an Indian village of Bihar state has beaten to death three men suspected of trying to steal cattle. This is the latest in a spate of &#8220;cow vigilante&#8221; attacks that have provoked alarm among religious minorities and socially underprivileged classes. The three men were caught by some villagers in Saran district&#8217;s Pithauri [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6863,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861\/revisions\/6863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}