Beef rumour triggers clash in Palwal, 10 hurt

Gurgaon (Haryana): In yet another incident involving the beef debate, a 'cow protection group' beat up a truck driver on the suspicion that he was carrying a consignment of beef. The group stopped the truck coming from Mewat and going to Aligarh. When the driver protested the detention by local villagers, he was thrashed and his truck damaged. The villagers then blocked the highway in protest against 'transportation of beef'. The situation soon got out of hand as the crowd started pelting stones at the police and they responded with a lathi charge. “It was a clash between pro-cow volunteers and police. It was not a communal clash,” said RS Sangwan, deputy director of public relations (NCR), Haryana.