Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narvekar on Monday directed police to ensure that “gau rakshaks” are not booked on false charges, and that FIRs be lodged and probed if they are threatened or attacked.
Assistant Police Inspector Ravi Wahule of Islapur police station was suspended on Wednesday by Shashikant Mahavarkar, Inspector General of Police, Nanded region.
A 'go-rakshak' (cow vigilante) was killed in an attack in Nanded after he and his friends sought to intercept a vehicle on suspicion of smuggling cattle