Overview
- Lucknow police allege a woman and her Bhopal-based lover plotted to implicate her husband in cow‑slaughter by planting meat and tipping off a right‑wing social media group.
- The husband was first arrested in September after about 2 kg of meat was found in his SUV and was released on bail a month later.
- A second consignment of about 10 kg was intercepted near the husband’s business on January 15 after an e‑rickshaw booking made from his phone, prompting a police trap that led to the lover’s arrest.
- Three policemen who entered the Allahabad High Court’s Lucknow Bench on January 20–21 to detain the woman were suspended and booked for trespass and related violations as she fled.
- Both accused have been booked under the Cow Slaughter Act and conspiracy provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, with the seized meat sent for forensic examination.