NEW DELHI: A Muslim man was beaten to death for dating a Hindu girl in India, police said on Friday, in the latest mob violence against minorities in the country.
Mohammad Shalik, 20, was set upon by dozens of people from the town where he lived after he was spotted dropping off his girlfriend on his scooter near her home in the Gumla district of eastern Jharkhand state.
The mob tied him to a pole in front of the girl and lashed at him with sticks and belts in an ordeal that lasted for hours late Wednesday. He died of his injuries on Thursday, police said.
We are trying to find whether the mob was instigated by the (girls) family, Chandan Kumar Jha, Gumla police chief said.
He said three people have been arrested and more were wanted over the killing, which is being treated as religiously motivated. The young couple had been together for about a year and had faced threats in the past, Jha said.
Muslim man tied to tree, beaten to death for being in love with Hindu woman
Villagers in Jharkhands Gumla district allegedly tied a 20-year-old Muslim man to a tree and thrashed him for hours for being in love with a Hindu woman, leading to his death, police said on Friday.
The man identified as Mohammad Shalik, a resident of Raza Colony in Gumla town was allegedly in a relationship with a Hindu woman of a nearby village, Soso, for more than a year, sources said.
The girl allegedly called the boy to meet her at Gumla town for the Ram Navami procession on Wednesday. Fearing trouble, Shakil initially refused but finally went to meet her on a scooty and dropped her home, police said.
It is then that a group of neighbours saw Shalik and surrounded him, tied him to a tree and assaulted him for hours, the woman was quoted as saying by police. He succumbed to his injuries on Thursday.
Police said they arrested three people and lodged an FIR against unnamed people. Though investigation is on, we were told by the villagers that the boy had been asked earlier not to meet the girl and never visit the village, said Gumla superintendent of police Chandan Kumar Jha.
The incident comes amid rising communal tensions in the state following a slew of controversial initiatives in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh. Activists have cried foul against Jharkhands decision to create anti-romeo squads and seal illegal slaughterhouses, saying that the moves unfairly targeted the Muslim community.
Earlier this week, a Muslim man was lynched by a group of alleged cow protection vigilantes in Rajasthans Alwar when he was transporting cattle. A group of men also forced a couple to shave their heads in Uttar Pradesh, one of a similar string of alleged moral policing incidents.
Shaliks murder triggered tensions in Gumla town but police thwarted any violence by deploying hundreds of personnel. The situation is under control, Jha added.
Shaliks father Mohammad Minhaj said two people came to his house on Wednesday night to tell him that his son was being beaten and tied to rope at Soso village. I informed police immediately. When we reached at the village, we found my son was critically injured, he said. He was taken to Sadar hospital immediately. The hospital authority referred him to Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Ranchi but he died on the way.
Re: Muslim man tied to tree, beaten to death for being in love with Hindu woman
Hindu Baniya is infesting the Jharkhand as well, Maoists must take control of their land otherwise RSS goons will turn whole Red Corridor in same kind of sh*t.
