Hyderabad, March 5 -- Two Muslim men were beaten and paraded through a busy area by the Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain police recently on allegations of cow slaughter.

Several videos of the police beating the men - Salim Mewati and Aaqib Mewati - have gone viral on social media platforms.

During the parade, the two men were forced to chant, "Gau hamari matha hai, police hamara baap hai", which loosely translates to "Cow is our mother and police is our father."

In one of the videos, a police officer asks Salim and Aaqib why they were paraded, to which the men replied that they were involved in the business of cow slaughtering.

The two Muslim men were paraded for almost a kilometer before being taken to the police station.

According to the Uj...