Cow meat may be completely banned in North India due to their religious fanatism. But it is available in many parts of the country. The reason the Sanghis killed a Muslim in north is a daily scenario in many parts of Kerala. Fascism has entered our door steps..controlling what to eat, wear, drink and lastly the call for genocide.
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yes it is obvious that cow meat is readily available in most of India.
I can not say about rest of India due to my lack of knowledge about those areas.
But i am talking about Punjab, Haryana, Himachal and most of northern Rajasthan.
Cow meat is officially banned in these parts.
Buffalow meat is not banned officialy, but No hindu or Sikh eat even buffalow meat.
And about that guy getting killed due to beef, I am pretty much sure it is no sanghi.
It can easily be any random bunch of hindus.
Although I do not support, but these kind of incidents happen every now and then, when some muslim guy is found with cows and beaten up.
The guys who do these kind of cow smuggling (most of time they smuggle cows to Uttar Pradesh), they know about the risk they are taking.
They do so because of profits, buffalows are really costly in these areas, goin upto lakhs Whereas , cows can be captured from streets.