J&Okay scholar assaulted by right-wing activists in M.P. for coming into garba occasion

A youth from Jammu and Kashmir finding out at a Central authorities college in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar has been assaulted by members of right-wing outfits for allegedly coming into a Navratri Garba occasion, an officer mentioned on Monday.

According to the police, the incident befell on September 27 night when Aftaab Hussain, 25, a resident of J&Okay’s Poonch, went with a few of his pals to a garba occasion, the place the organisers had prohibited the entry of Muslims. A purported video of the alleged assault has additionally appeared on social media, displaying a bunch of males dragging and thrashing Mr. Hussain, a second-year scholar on the Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya.

Superintendent of Police (Sagar metropolis) Lalit Kashyap instructed The Hindu that Mr. Hussain was held by the organisers throughout an ID examine. “Some native outfit members additionally arrived on the scene and beat him up. The police reached the scene instantly and took him into custody,” he mentioned, including that Mr. Hussain was detained beneath Section 170 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023. The officer mentioned the scholar was not conscious of the entry ban enforced by the organisers and was let off shortly after being detained.

“We took him into preventive custody however no FIR has been filed,” Mr. Kashyap mentioned, including that no motion has been initiated in opposition to the organisers or every other alleged individuals “as there is no such thing as a grievance from Mr. Hussain”.

Meanwhile, the J&Okay Students Association has alleged that Mr. Hussain was brutally thrashed by the members of Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Hindu Parishad, and Hindu Jagran Manch. “Shockingly, as a substitute of being protected, he was taken into police custody regardless of a clear educational report and no illegal background,” Nasir Khuehami, nationwide convener of the scholar physique. mentioned in an X put up.

“False, defamatory, and concocted remarks have been made in opposition to Mr. Hussain by these right-wing parts, portraying him with malicious intent with none proof. The actuality is that he had been invited to the occasion by his pals,” Mr. Khuehami wrote whereas urging the Director General of Police, Madhya Pradesh, to make sure authorized motion in opposition to the alleged assaulters.

Similar ban on entry of Muslim youth has been reported in numerous cities throughout the State, with the organisers and right-wing outfits alleging ‘love jihad’ by them. Organisers have additionally positioned banners outdoors some occasions, warning that these caught violating the ban will probably be subjected to “ghar wapsi (a time period utilized by right-wing teams for non secular conversion into Hinduism)”.

Various BJP leaders, together with State Cabinet Minister Vishwas Sarang and Bhopal MLA Rameshwar Sharma, had additionally made such calls forward of the Navratri pageant.

In Bhopal, the district administration had made the identification playing cards obligatory to enter the garba occasions, amongst different security measures throughout the nine-day pageant.