The story of a small village in Madhya Pradesh exemplifies the perils of the minority community – caught between biased official machinery and Hindu groups affiliated with PM Modi’s party.
Up until a few months back, 17-year-old Zeenat Qureshi was like any of the tens of millions of girls her age in India. She was poor and had to help her mother in their brick home in a village in Madya Pradesh and tend to the cattle. But she had a family, her things, and friends.
“They didn’t even give us time to collect children’s school books or our valuables,” says Aliya Bano, a 30-year-old mother. Over the years, Hindu extremist groups or cow vigilantes have taken it upon themselves to ‘protect’ cows, which freely roam the roads in many cities, including India’s IT hub of Bangalore.
Bano looks much older than her three decades, her weather-beaten face creased with weariness from the years of hard labour. Her husband is a junk scrap dealer, and she helps him out with that.visited the village, which requires a 17-hour-long train journey from New Delhi to Jabalpur and then a three-hour drive to reach the village.
The Muslim men have been arrested for violating the 2004 Cow Protection Act. Their families have approach the high court, after a lower court rejected their plea. “For 30 years, we have known what happens in Bhainswahi,” says Sonal Barman, chief spokesperson of the VHP’s Mandla unit.The path from an injured cow to the demolition of 16 houses is a short and stark one, highlighting the volatile intersection of religious sentiments, cow vigilantism, and official action that seems to be growing in the state of Madhya Pradesh.
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