 In 2018 Junior civil aviation minister of India had garlanded and honoured eight men who had been convicted in the lynching of trader Alimuddin Ansari in Ramgarh in June 2017 in a case of alleged cow vigilantism.In June 2019, the Jharkhand mob lynching triggered widespread protests.The victim was a Muslim man and was allegedly forced to chant Hindu slogans, including ""Jai Shri Ram"".