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New Delhi: Senior Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Indresh Kumar on Monday said that no religion permits cow slaughter and crimes like mob lynching will end if the people stop killing bovines. Kumar’s remarks were in reference to the last week’s lynching of 28-year-old Rakbar Khan in Rajasthan's Alwar over suspicion of cow smuggling.

“Amongst all the religions in the world, tell me one religion which preaches about cow slaughtering. Tell me one place. Is it the church, mosque, gurudwara, telple, ashram, or amongst the Nirankaris?,” asked Kumar.

The RSS functionary did not end here. He added: “Kisi bhi mob ki hinsa, wo aapke ghar ki, mohalle ki, jaati ki, party ki ho, wo kabhi bhi ahinandaniya nahin ho sakti. Parantu, duniya ke jitne bhi dharm hain, unke kisi ek dharam sthal par bata do ki gaye ka vadh hota hai (Violence by mob, be it in your own house, locality, party, is not praiseworthy. But, tell me one religious place across the world where the killing of cows is permitted).”

Kumar further said that cow is a “common mother for everyone in this world”. The top RSS leader said if the cow, “whose milk, excreta, urine are beneficiary for all the human beings on this planet”, is not slaughtered and is protected, if beef is not consumed, if its milk is used for drinking, “only then will the rule of evil in India and across the world will come to an end”.

He added that in Christianity, the animal is referred to as 'mother cow' because Jesus was born in a cowshed. It is a sin to kill cows in Mecca-Medina, added Kumar. "Can't we commit that we will free the world and humanity from this sin? If it is free, then the problem (mob lynching) will be solved," said the RSS executive committee member.

Indresh Kumar made the remarks during a press meet at a hotel in Ranchi after the inauguration of the office of the Jharkhand unit of Hindu Jagran Manch. The RSS leader asserted that the society needed the right ‘sanskar’ to deal with the lynching cases.