The person stated in his grievance that the assailants additionally threatened to kill him and his household.
Lucknow:
Three individuals have been arrested for parading a 45-year-old Muslim man in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur city by a avenue. The person was assaulted and made to chant “Jai Shri Ram” slogans on Wednesday. He was ultimately handed over to the police. Distressing footage of the incident shot by locals reveals the person’s little daughter clinging on to him and begging the attackers to spare him. The footage additionally reveals the person being hit whereas within the custody of the police.
Rahul, Aman and Rajesh have been arrested after the incident and additional investigation is underway, stated senior police officer Dr Anil Kumar.
After the arrest, a mob of Bajrang Dal staff held protest outdoors the police station and left solely after ‘assurances’ from police.
The incident occurred 500 metres from an intersection the place the right-wing group Bajrang Dal held a gathering, the place they claimed Muslims within the space have been making an attempt to transform a Hindu woman of their locality. The assault reportedly occurred simply after the assembly.
In an announcement, the Kanpur police stated they’ve filed a case of rioting in opposition to an area who runs a wedding band, his son and round 10 unknown individuals, based mostly on a grievance by the assaulted man.
The police haven’t stated if the boys named within the case are affiliated to the organisation.
“I used to be driving my e-rickshaw round 3 pm when the accused began abusing and assaulting me and threatening to kill me and my household. I bought saved due to the police,” the person, who’s an e-rickshaw driver, stated in his grievance. He has not spoken to the media to date.
The person is a relative of a Muslim household within the locality that’s concerned in a authorized dispute with their Hindu neighbors. The Kanpur police assertion says in July, the 2 households filed instances in opposition to one another on the native police station.
The Muslim aspect had filed an FIR of assault and prison intimidation first. The Hindu aspect then filed a case alleging “assault with the intent to outrage the modesty of a lady”.
Sources say the Bajrang Dal lately bought concerned within the matter and so they had been making allegations of forcible conversion in opposition to the Muslim household.
“Now we have seen the video of a person being assaulted. Based mostly on a grievance by the sufferer, we now have filed an FIR and we’re finishing up the authorized course of,” Raveena Tyagi, a senior police official in Kanpur stated in a short assertion.
