The cow vigilante has been arrested for allegedly importing ‘objectionable and inflammatory’ posts below a fictitious identify, experiences say.

A cow vigilante on the run after he was accused of inciting lethal communal violence in India’s northern Haryana state has been arrested.

Mohit Yadav, higher recognized by his alias Monu Manesar, was arrested for allegedly importing “objectionable and inflammatory” posts below a fictitious identify on social media after the violence, Indian media experiences stated on Tuesday.

The violence in Nuh, Haryana’s solely Muslim-majority district about 100km (62 miles) from New Delhi, began on July 31 after far-right Hindu teams held a spiritual procession via the district.

Two days earlier than the procession, Manesar, who heads the native cow safety unit of the Bajrang Dal, the youth wing of Vishva Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council or VHP), launched a Facebook video saying he would attend the procession as he exhorted different Hindus to affix him.

Nuh residents stated the video angered them since Manesar, 28, is amongst 21 individuals named in a primary info report (FIR) for lynching two Muslim males in February this 12 months.

The charred stays of Junaid Khan, 35, and Nasir Hussain, 27, who had been cousins from neighbouring Rajasthan state, had been present in a automotive in Haryana’s Bhiwani district on February 16.

Cow is taken into account sacred by a piece of primarily privileged caste Hindus and plenty of states have banned its sale and consumption.

Dozens of Muslims have been attacked and lynched previously decade by self-appointed cow vigilantes throughout India over allegations of cow slaughter.

According to media experiences, Manesar is more likely to be handed to the Rajasthan police in reference to the February lynchings.

Police and Hindu teams say their procession in Nuh was attacked by Muslim residents, who dismiss the allegation and say the violence was deliberate.

At least six individuals, together with two Bajrang Dal members and two police guards, had been killed and a few autos had been torched within the violence, which quickly unfold to Gurgaon on the outskirts of New Delhi, the place a mosque was burned and its imam killed by a Hindu mob.

In response to the violence, greater than 1,000 properties – principally belonging to Muslims – had been bulldozed in Nuh by Haryana’s right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) authorities, forcing an Indian court to ask if it was an “exercise of ethnic cleansing”.