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Cow vigilantes thrashed five who were caught illegally slaughtering a buffalo inside a private dairy in Gandhi Park area, the police said. They added dairy owner Kalu Baghel, operating from his compound in Panna Ganj locality, decided to sell one of his buffaloes after it stopped yielding milk. Imran, a cattle trader, offered to buy it provided Baghel gave permission to slaughter the animal in the premises of the dairy itself.