Delhi: Muslim youth alleges attack by Hindutva men, police yet to lodge FIR

hatehs · Jul 15, 2023

Delhi: Muslim youth alleges attack by Hindutva men, police yet to lodge FIR

Tauqeer Ahmed Khan, a 24-year-old Muslim youth alleged that he was beaten by men wearing saffron shawls in the national capital in broad daylight on Thursday.
“I was going to Jasola in an e-rickshaw. As I stepped off it, at around 3 pm, some men came towards me and started beating before I could ask or speak anything,” Khan said to Maktoob.

He has endured multiple visible injuries on his face, neck, back, and legs and his jaw has dismantled due to a severe attack, he said to Maktoob.
“They were constantly attacking my face and head”, he said.
Khan recalled, “As they were beating me, one of them was showing a video on Instagram to the other, to ensure if they were beating a right person.”
“I heard them saying, ‘Dekh le bhai, kahin ghalat bakre ko to nahi kaat rahe’ (Make sure brother, that we are not slaughtering a wrong goat)”, calling me a bakra,” he said.

Khan further said that while the attackers were beating him, no one came to his rescue and saw him being beaten from a distance.
He also said that the assailants left after beating him as he became unconscious. He gathered himself up after some time and went to 3 police stations in the vicinity of the area where the incident took place but all of them refused to take his complaint.
“I went to Sarita Vihar Police first as it was the nearest where I was told that the area where the incident took place doesn’t come in their jurisdiction and a 2-star officer asked me to go to Kalindi Kunj Police station”, said Khan.

When he went to Kalindi Kunj Police Station he was again sent back to the Sarita Vihar Police Station citing the same reason.
“When I again went to Sarita Vihar Police Station, the officer refused to take my complaint saying that he needs proof of the physical assault, I showed him my injuries but he didn’t take it seriously,” he added.
Finally, the victim resorted to go to Shaheen Bagh Police Station which is near his place of residence and they also didn’t register a complaint.
Khan said that he couldn’t record anything said by the police officers at all these police stations because his mobile phone got broken when he was being assaulted by the group.
“While they were beating me, I could hear one of their names, they were calling him Aakash.”
On Thursday night, Khan managed to receive medical treatment with the help of a Delhi-based non-governmental organisation Miles2Smile (M2S).
He was taken to Al-Shifa Hospital located in the Abul Fazl Enclave area where doctors recommended for an x-ray of his jaw and other medical checkups.