The Meerut wing of the Bhartiya Janata Party found itself in a spot on Sunday, after a crackdown on a meat packaging unit ended up in its own 'gaurakshak' being thrashed.

A group of Bajrang Dal workers descended upon a meat packaging unit on Sunday night as part of the saffron camp's statewide campaign to shut down illegal slaughterhouses. While the police was in the middle of raiding the unit and seizing red meat, top BJP leader and celebrated 'gaurakshak' Rahul Thakur tried to pacify authorities, according to a report in the Hindustan Times.

It was then that the Bajrang Dal activists decided to thrash Thakur, assuming he was involved in the meat packaging business. When Thakur denied any involvement with the unit, police checked his phone only to find several missed calls from the unit's owners.

"When we raided the unit, we managed to catch hold of two persons. Later, when Thakur arrived, he pretended he did not know anything. But when we checked his phone, we found that he had talked several times to the two accused in the half hour before we raided the unit. He then started accusing the police of running the illegal establishment," Balraj Doonger, the city unit head of Bajrang Dal told The Hindu.

Police filed an FIR after seizing more than 40 quintals of red meat in the unit's freezers and Thakur is now under scanner for his alleged links with illegal meat packaging.

But that's not all.

According to a story in the Hindustan Times, Thakur was admitted to the government medical college hospital in Meerut. There, he asked doctors to doctor reports and suggest that his injuries were caused by sharp edged weapons.

Thankur wanted to use the falsified reports to "file a stronger case against the Bajrang Dal activists." The doctors, however, refused to do anything illegal.

An angry Thakur then proceeded to thrash the doctors with help from his brother and associates. He even threatened to kill the on-call doctor.

Police is now investigating Thakur and his associates.

Rahul Thakur at Meerut hospital. (AajTak image) Rahul Thakur at Meerut hospital. (AajTak image)

Clearly, not the best Sunday night for Thakur, this.