A teenager was killed by a group of five cow vigilantes who mistook the class 12th student for a cattle smuggler in Haryana, the police said on Tuesday. All of the five accused have been arrested, and identified as - Saurabh, Anil Kaushik, Varun, Krishna, and Adesh.
During the police interrogation, the accused revealed that on the night of August 23, they had received information that some suspected cattle smugglers driving two SUVs were doing recce in the city. The illegal weapon and the car used in the crime have been recovered.
They mistook the victim, Aryan Mishra, and his friends, Shanky and Harshit, for those cattle smugglers and followed their car for about 30 kilometres near the Gadhpuri toll on the Delhi-Agra National Highway, a senior police officer said.
The accused told the police that when they asked the victim's car to be stopped, the driver accelerated, following which they opened fire and Mishra was killed on the spot near the Gadhpuri toll in Palwal, the police officer said.
The investigation into the matter is on with all the accused being sent to judicial custody.
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