News - Middle East: Indian police have detained three men in the country's eastern Bihar state in connection with the death of a Muslim man, who was brutally assaulted on suspicion of carrying beef.

Ramchandra Tiwari, head of Rasulpur police station in Bihar, where the crime took place, made the announcement on Saturday.

The victim, identified as 56-year-old Naseem Qureshi, died earlier this week after being attacked by a Hindu-radical mob for being suspected of carrying beef.

According to a police statement in court, Qureshi was allegedly surrounded by more than 20 people and attacked.

Police forces intervened but he died on the way to the hospital, the statement added.  

Cows are sacred in Hinduism and the slaughter of them, along with the sale, consumption, or even possession of beef is restricted in some parts of the country.