New Delhi: What seems to be another incident stoked by communal feelings, an 18-year-old boy and two of his friends were allegedly beaten up in Delhi on Saturday (26 March) by a group of men when they refused to chant a religious slogan ‘Jai Mata di’.
According to reports, Dilkash and his friends, Ajmal and Naeem were strolling in a park outside their school in outer Delhi’s Begumpur area, when they were thrashed for not saying ‘Jai Mata Ki’. One of the students, an 18-year-old, has a broken arm. The three students reportedly called up the police control room on Saturday evening complaining about a fight. When a police team reached there, it was told that they were allegedly beaten up with sticks by three other youths, aged between 18 and 21.
“My friends and I had gone to Bans Wala park, some 300 metres from the madrasa, when we were attacked by a group of young men. They spotted us because we were wearing caps and asked us to say Jai Mata Ki,” Dikash was quoted as saying to media.
The three boys were taken for medical check up, following which no injuries were found on the bodies of two and one had a fracture. An X-ray has confirmed the fracture.
However, the police say there are “inconsistencies” in the statement of the young men, who say they were beaten when they had taken a break at a park near the madrassa. Initially, one of the teens (whose arm was fractured) said he was asked to chant ‘Jai Mata di’, later, he said he was asked to chant ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’” the police added. The teen has, however, not reported this to the police.
Three days after the incident, a case has been registered under IPC sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 325 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt) and 341 (wrongful restraint) and investigation is on.
All three victims hail from Bihar’s Purnia district and had come to Delhi in 2015 to study at the Faiz-ul-uloom Ghausia madrasa in Ramesh Enclave’s Mohammadi Masjid.