Translations:Killing of Praveen Poojary/11/en
Poojary, whose age was reported as 28 or 29, drove a tempo that he often hired out, and was president of the BJP's local standing committee in Kenjur village.[1][2][3] Activists cited by Scroll.in said that cow vigilantes had been involved in eleven cases in the region in 2016, four of them involving Hindus.[2] On the night of the attack he had been hired to carry calves, accompanied by his friend Akshay Devadiga, aged 20.[1][2]