Muslim man in MP abused, beaten, paraded for asking for box of mobile phone

Mangalore Today News Network

Madhya Pradesh, May 31, 2019 : Just less than a week after the horrific incident of hate crime in Madhya Pradesh’s Seoni district where a Hindu man was beaten and forced to thrash his Muslim friends, including a woman, another alleged hate crime related incident surfaced in the state’s Rajgarh district recently.

 

A 20-year-old Muslim youth was beaten up and verbally abused by a group of men belonging to another religion on 28 May.

When asked about the religion-specific abuse as Sameer claimed, Sharma said, "Sameer did not say anything about it while lodging his complaint and without his signature, the FIR could not have been completed." No counter FIR has been lodged by the second party concerned in the case either.

State government’s apathy towards minorities

Rajgarh is a pocket borough of former chief minister and Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh, who recently lost the Lok Sabha election from Bhopal against BJP’s Sadhvi Pragya Thakur.

Earlier, in February this year, the ruling Congress government in Madhya Pradesh had invoked the National Security Act (NSA) on three Muslim youths hailing from Khandwa district, over alleged involvement in cow slaughter. On 2 February, the Khandwa police had arrested Azam, Nadeem and Shaqil on charges of cow slaughter.

Similar action was taken against two youths €" Mehboob Khan and Rodmal Malviya €" by the police in Agar-Malwa district on 6 February for illegal transportation of cows. Justifying the action, state home minister Bala Bachchan had said, "The actions will continue if cases of cow killing come to fore."

Former union minister and senior Congress leader, P Chidambaram had disapproved of the NSA action by the Madhya Pradesh government.