Dadri: Controversial AIMIM leader Asaduddin&nbsp;Owaisi, who visited the family of the man killed here by a&nbsp;mob over rumours that they had consumed beef, today alleged&nbsp;that he was targeted for his religion and questioned the Prime&nbsp;Minister's "silence".
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Owaisi, who heads the Muslim right wing All India&nbsp;Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM), met the wife of deceased&nbsp;Iqlakh this morning and alleged that it was pre-planned&nbsp;murder.
"This wasn't an attack over meat. It was murder over&nbsp;religion to spread politics of hatred of a party. This is a&nbsp;pre-planned, cold-blooded killing. It cannot be an accident.&nbsp;
"This is the thought which is against secularism, it is&nbsp;against the brotherhood of India. It sees Muslims with an eye&nbsp;of suspicion," the Hyderabad MP said.&nbsp;
Owaisi hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over&nbsp;his "silence" on the issue, saying the he sholld have at least&nbsp;sent his condolences in a tweet if "he believes in pluralism&nbsp;and upholding of law".
"... we were expecting the PM would have at lease sent&nbsp;condolences to Sartaj (victim's son) and condemned it. We were&nbsp;expecting that the PM who says 'sabka saath sabka vikaas'&nbsp;should have condoled at least with a tweet."
The AIMIM leader also hit out at Union Minister and local&nbsp;MP Mahesh Sharma who had termed the attack as an "accident".
"Mahesh Sharma is the Culture Minister of the country and&nbsp;it is unfortunate that the minister who has taken oath on the&nbsp;Constitution doesn't have the courage and intellectual honesty&nbsp;to condemn the incident unconditionally," Owaisi said.&nbsp;
"He and his PM say 'Sabka Saath Sabka Vikaas', then such&nbsp;incidents happen. These words should be put into practice," he&nbsp;said.
He also hit out at the Samajwadi government, saying&nbsp;instead of nabbing the attackers it was "conducting forensic&nbsp;test on a piece of meat and treating the victim as accused".&nbsp;
"They have so much poison in their minds that a person&nbsp;who had died, rather than treating him as a victim, they are&nbsp;treating him as an accused," he said.
Owaisi demanded that the accused be charged with IPC&nbsp;section related to murder and a time-bound trial be held.&nbsp;He said that he feared that Samajwadi Party government&nbsp;will let the accused go scot-free "as had happened after&nbsp;Muzaffarnagar riots".
Iqlakh was beaten to death and his 22-year-old son Danish&nbsp;was critically injured by a 200-strong mob which barged into&nbsp;their house on Monday night following rumours that the family&nbsp;had consumed beef. Cow slaughter is banned in Uttar Pradesh.&nbsp;

Controversial AIMIM leader Asaduddin&nbsp;Owaisi, who visited the family of the man killed in Dadri by a&nbsp;mob over rumours that they had consumed beef, has alleged&nbsp;that he was targeted for his religion and questioned Modi's 'silence'

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Controversial AIMIM leader Asaduddin&nbsp;Owaisi, who visited the family of the man killed in Dadri by a&nbsp;mob over rumours that they had consumed beef, has alleged&nbsp;that he was targeted for his religion and questioned Modi's 'silence'

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