New Delhi: A video showing a mob jeering and abusing an elderly Muslim man, accusing him of selling beef in a weekly market in Assam’s Biswanath district, made it to the news on April 8.

Local police told The Wire on April 9 morning that five people were picked up for the act based on two FIRs filed by the victim’s family and by another person, a Hindu, who was also allegedly abused by the same mob on Sunday afternoon. They were later allowed to leave after signing a good behaviour bond under Section 107 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

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