Shahjahanpur (UP), Aug 27 (PTI)Three persons were arrested today in Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur district after a purported video showing them carry the severed head of a cow went viral on social media, police said.
In the video, Mujahid Ali, Intezar and Zakir Ahmed, were purportedly seen moving around with the head of a slaughtered cow in the lanes of Rampur village under the Khudaganj police station, SP (City) Dinesh Tripathi said.
A local BJP leader, Rajiv Kumar Singh, had lodged an FIR against them yesterday, following which the trio was arrested, Tripathi said.