Daijiworld Media Network – Assam (AM)
Assam, Apr 9: In yet another incident of rising hate crimes in India, a 68-year-old man suspected for selling beef was thrashed.
The incident took place on April 7 in Assam's Biswanath Chariali. Shaukat Ali became a victim to mob violence. Shaukat Ali received injuries and is being treated in a local hospital. The mob also misbehaved with the manager of the weekly market, Kamal Thapa.
The incident turned ugly when the mob thrashed him and also proceeded to force feed him pork. In a video doing the rounds on social media, Shaukat Ali can be seen kneeling in mud surrounded by an angry mob. The mob asks Shaukat Ali why he is selling beef and if he has the license to do so.
Shockingly, the angry mob can be seen asking Shaukat Ali to declare his nationality, asking if he is Bangladeshi or if he has a National Register of Citizen (NRC) certificate.
However, according to police, Ali is a businessman and has been running an eatery in the area for the last 35 years. The mob accused him of selling beef in the weekly market.
It is said that the situation worsened when the miscreants started thrashing Shaukat Ali and allegedly forced him to eat pork. In another video of the incident, the group can be seen manhandling Shaukat Ali and forcing him to eat meat, claimed to be pork, from a packet.
Police told that two FIRs have been filed against unidentified persons, one by Kamal Thapa and the other by Shaukat Ali's relatives. The police, however, denied that the violence was communal in nature.