2015 Dadri Lynching

On 28 September 2015 evening, one of Akhlaq's neighbors allegedly accused him of stealing and slaughtering his missing calf. Soon a crowd gathered and insisted on searching his house for traces of slaughter which was refused by the family. Soon things took an ugly turn when two boys used the local temple's public address system and announced that the family of Akhlaq had killed the cow-calf and consumed its meat on Eid-ul-Adha. Cows are considered sacred in Hinduism and in most Indian states including Uttar Pradesh, where killing cows is illegal. The police said that this was the cause of the outrage of citizens