Aligarh. In a village in Aligarh, two people allegedly beat up and robbed a Muslim youth for refusing to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’. Zonal Officer Atrauli SP Singh said that an FIR has been lodged at Harduaganj police station on the complaint of the father of the victim Aamir Khan two days after the incident.
The circle official said Rahisuddin did not say that his son was forced to raise slogans by accused Devendra and his father Raju.
Police claimed that the clash between the two sides started after a dispute over the price of clothes.
The accused have been booked under sections 307 (attempted murder) and 323 (voluntary injury) of the IPC.
Aamir, however, claimed that when he reached his neighboring village Nagla Khema to sell clothes, the father-son duo first asked him his name, then beat him with sticks and forced him to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’.
He has made a video of the incident. It is alleged that “they also snatched Rs 10,000 and a mobile phone.”
When the police detained the accused, they started chanting ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ and hurling stones at a man who was filming their arrest.
Also in August, a Muslim e-rickshaw driver was beaten up in public and allegedly asked to chant the slogan ‘Jai Shri Ram’ while his minor daughter tried to save him. The video of the incident went viral on social media.
In another incident in June, an elderly man Abdul Sarad Saifi accused four people of beating him, shaving his beard and asking him to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ in Ghaziabad.
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