A 45-year-old Muslim was thrashed and forced to chant “Jai Shri Ram” slogans on the streets of Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur, even while his young daughter begged his attackers to spare him.
The distressing footage of the incident shows the man’s terrified young daughter clinging to him and screaming in distress, while the heinous mob brutalise him in absolute ignominy.
The incident took place on Wednesday soon after the Hindu extremist group Bajrang Dal called a meeting in the vicinity. The group accused that the Muslims in the area were trying to convert a Hindu woman to Islam. The brutal assault on the Muslim man by marauding Bajrang Dal thugs took place just after the meeting, NDTV reported.
“I was driving my e-rickshaw around 3 pm when the accused started abusing and assaulting me and threatening to kill me and my family. I got saved because of the police,” the man, who is an e-rickshaw driver, said in his complaint, according to NDTV.
The man is a relative of a Muslim family in the locality that is involved in a legal dispute with their Hindu neighbours. The two families filed cases against each other at the local police station, a statement issued by Kanpur police in July said.
Meanwhile, the Kanpur police said they have filed a case of rioting against a local who runs a marriage band, his son and around 10 unknown people, based on a complaint by the assaulted man.
“We have seen the video of a man being assaulted. Based on a complaint by the victim, we have filed an FIR and we are carrying out the legal process,” Raveena Tyagi, a senior police official in Kanpur said.
The incident comes on the heels of genocidal threats that were made on Sunday calling for the killing of Muslims at Jantar Mantar in the national capital.
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