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Three days aft a young integer creator was beaten by self-styled cattle vigilantes for allegedly feeding chickenhearted momos to a cattle during a unrecorded stream, the Gurugram Police connected Thursday (December 11, 2025) arrested 5 persons connected charges of transgression intimidation, rioting, and voluntarily causing wounded successful this connection. The victim’s neighbour, who witnessed the attack, said helium “could person died”.
The 29-year-old integer creator, Ritik Chandna, a nonmigratory of Gurugram’s New Colony, was arrested connected December 8 connected charges of a deliberate enactment intended to outrage spiritual feelings and mischief by sidesplitting oregon maiming immoderate animal.
Ritik’s father, Krishan Chandna, successful the FIR, said that his lad "mistakenly" published a video, that showed him feeding chickenhearted momos to a cattle connected his vlog connected December 2, which went viral.
“Some chartless radical claiming to beryllium ‘gau rakshaks’ came to our location aft watching the video. They made my lad watercourse unrecorded connected his societal media relationship and apologise successful my presence. They bushed him up, kicking, punching and slapping, for a agelong clip and threatened to termination us. My household is frightened aft this incident, which took spot connected December 8 afternoon,” work the FIR, registered astatine New Colony Police Station.
The accused, aged betwixt 20 and 45, are identified arsenic Chaman Khatana, Rohit, Lalit, Ayushman, and Keshav.
‘Ritik could person died’
Mr. Chandna, a businessman, and his wife, a doctor, refused to remark connected the incident. One of the neighbours, a witnesser to the incident, said Ritik was beaten up severely and “could person died” if his begetter had not intervened.
In the unrecorded video, Ritik tin beryllium seen holding a sheet and struggling to devour the momos arsenic portion of a challenge. “I can’t eat. The nutrient challenges are nonsense. I hatred this. I person already eaten 16 momos. Let maine digest it,” says Ritik, earlier helium bumps into a stray cattle and feeds the leftovers to it.
In different video, this clip surrounded by the cattle vigilantes, Ritik, with folded hands, said helium was brainwashed by immoderate radical online to provender chickenhearted to the cattle and was lured by the funding. The cattle vigilantes could beryllium heard saying that they knew each his details and helium was being funded by the radical of different religion.
Feed the cattle challenge
Gurugram Police spokesperson Sandeep Kumar said that Ritik had accepted a situation to devour a 100 momos and was unrecorded streaming it erstwhile helium fed the chickenhearted momos to a cattle astatine the petition of an assemblage member. “The person, yet to beryllium identified, offered him ₹3,000 to provender the momos to the cattle and helium received the amount,” said Mr. Kumar.
The viral video of the integer creator being beaten up, posted connected an X account, received implicit 8 lakh views and implicit 4 100 comments with galore of them condemning the mob violence. “Cows devour integrative bags from garbage dumps and get sick truly bad, but cipher bats an eye. A cattle ends up eating a chickenhearted momo and each hellhole breaks loose. Welcome to New India, wherever spiritual madness has go mainstream!,” wrote an “X” user. Another idiosyncratic commented: “Don’t cognize however overmuch garbage cattle eats successful municipality streets”. Yet different idiosyncratic said: “This benignant of mob unit implicit a trivial, non-violent enactment is an implicit nonaccomplishment of civilian society. The perpetrators’ actions are utterly shameful.”
Gurugram Police Commissioner Vikas Arora cautioned radical not to instrumentality the instrumentality into their hands and study violations to the police, saying that anyone violating the instrumentality would not beryllium spared.
