Three persons including a BJP leader was arrested by the Ramgarh Police on Saturday for allegedly lynching a man accused of carrying beef in Ramgarh district of Jharkhand on Thursday.

The BJP leader has been identified as Nityanand Mahto, the Ramgarh district media in-charge of the party.

Sources said that Mahto was nabbed along with two others by the police from the house of a local party unit chief Pappu Banerjee.

Muslim trader Asgar Ali was lynched on June 29. According to sources, Mahto told the police that he had joined the mob only to 'find out what happened'.

Another of his colleague said that the Ramgarh Police arrested him in a haste and that Mahto arrived at the spot only after the incident took place.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Alimuddin alias Asgar Ansari was carrying the "banned meat" in a Maruti van. A group of people stopped him near Bajartand village and brutally attacked him, police sources said. His van was set on fire too.

Police personnel rescued him and took him to a hospital where he died during the course of treatment.

The lynching happened on the day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi had given a stern message to cow vigilantes during his Gujarat visit. Modi invoked Mahatma Gandhi to slam those involved in violence in the name of protecting cows.

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