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Indian children offer food to a cow as it grazes on plastics and leftover food at a garbage dump on a roadside in New Delhi late October 3. Cows are considered sacred in India and their slaughter is banned in some states in the country. Indian police arrested six people on September 30 and two more on October 3, after a 50-year-old Muslim man was beaten to death over rumors he had eaten beef, a taboo in the Hindu-majority nation. AFP PHOTO
Indian children offer food to a cow as it grazes on plastics and leftover food at a garbage dump on a roadside in New Delhi late October 3. Cows are considered sacred in India and their slaughter is banned in some states in the country. Indian police arrested six people on September 30 and two more on October 3, after a 50-year-old Muslim man was beaten to death over rumors he had eaten beef, a taboo in the Hindu-majority nation. AFP PHOTO
NEW DELHI: Indian police on Saturday arrested two more suspects in a mob murder of a Muslim man over rumours he had eaten beef, as debate mounted over communal intolerance under the Hindu nationalist government.