A day after people from diverse walks of life protested in several cities across India the recent incidents of mob lynching of Muslims, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday broke his silence on the issue.
At an event in Ahmedabad, the PM said killing people on the pretext of 'gau bhakti', or protecting cows was unacceptable and Mahatma Gandhi would never have approved of it. Modi said no one had the right to take the law into their hands.
Within hours of the PM's comments, his first on the issue since August 2016, a Muslim man accused of carrying beef was beaten to

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