In a shocking incident, Subodh Kumar Singh, SHO of a police station in Bulandshahr was murdered by alleged Gau Rakshaks on Monday. This shows how hatred arising out of cow protection mania has assumed dangerous proportions. As a brave and upright officer loses his life to the hatred fanned by the Right-wing forces, law and order in Uttar Pradesh is on a steady decline. The fact that ruling BJP leaders, including a member of parliament, have defended the murderers shows how the politics of ‘cow protection’ has gone horribly wrong.