
Zafar Aafaq | Caravan Daily
NEW DELHI — A 22-year-old Muslim youth was attacked by goons after they spotted him wearing a cap carrying slogans against the contentious new Citizenship law (or CAA) in a public park in Rani Garden locality of East Delhi on Friday evening.
Mohd Faisal, the victim was strolling in the park in the evening when the attackers approached him and asked him why he was wearing a cap with anti-CAA slogans and demanded that he remove the cap. “But he refused,” said Khalid Saifi of United Against Hate (UAH), who is assisting the victim. “Then the attackers yelled slurs at Faisal: ‘you are Muslim and you should go to Pakistan, you have no place here’ and began thrashing him. They also hit on his head with a liquor bottle and he fell unconscious.”
For about half hour there was no one to help Faisal. “Only after half an hour he was able to make his first call to his friend who rushed to the spot and brought him to Life Line Hospital.” Saifi, who reached the hospital after getting to know about the incident, said.
Young member of United Against Hate Mohd Faisal was beaten brutally by 5-6 un identified goons in Rani Garden area of East Delhi. He was asked to remove the No CAA NPR NRC cap when he refused to do so he was beaten up. @DelhiPolice @ndtvindia @abpnewshindi @aajtak pic.twitter.com/idWVIIkIwL
— United Against Hate (@UAH_India) January 31, 2020
At the hospital, Faisal was subjected to scans and given medicines before he left for his home late in the night. “I am suffering from headache and restless and my hand has become puffy as I was injured after they hit me with a glass bottle,” Faisal told Caravan Daily by phone.
The attack comes amidst anti-CAA protests led by women in the form of sit-ins across the country. One such sit-in is happening at Khureji, a locality near the park, where Faisal is assisting as a UAH volunteer.
The police Station Geeta Colony has begun investigating the incident. A police party visited the hospital and heard the account of the victim and the medicos who treated him.
According to a report in the Quint, the police have asked the victim to identify the attacker among a bunch of suspects they have arrested in connection with the case. The United Against Hate, who have termed the incident as hate crime, sought swift action in the case as the police are yet to file an FIR into the incident. When Caravan Daily Contacted Avdesh Kumar, the police official investigating the case, he said he was busy and said he would revert after a couple of hours.
United Against Hate also demanded that the police deployment in the area be increased to prevent the occurrence of such incidents amidst the communally charged environment partly triggered by the hate-smeared statements of the leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party including central ministers like Anurag Thakur during the ongoing campaign for Delhi elections.












































