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A few months after a Muslim man was lynched by a mob in Mangaluru, the communally sensitive Dakshina Kannada district has seen another unprecedented development. Police seized the houses of two Muslims accused of transporting cattle without permits and have also gone to several mosques across the district and allegedly warned that the houses of people who violated the cow slaughter act would be seized.

A woman named Zohra, a resident of Patrame village in Belthangady taluk, had sold a cow and two male calves to traders from Sajipanadu in Ullal taluk. The two men, Mohammed Sinan and Ibrahim Khaleel, were transporting the cattle in a Ritz car on November 2.

According to the FIR registered at the Dharmasthala station, po

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