SPATE OF HATE CONTINUES UNABATED IN MP
Muslim Man Made To Chant Jai Shri Ram
THE DIALOGUE THAT WENT VIRAL “Jai Shri Ram bolne main kya hai (What’s the harm in saying Jai Shri Ram?)” “Meri Baat Suno (Listen To Me).”
“Jai Shri Ram bolna padega, bol Jai Shri Ram (You will have to chant Jai Shri Ram)” “Chalo theek hai, Jai Shri Ram, Jai Shri Ram, ab khush (Okay, Jai Shri Ram. You are Happy now).”
A Muslim scrap dealer was allegedly threatened and forced to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ by two men at a village in Madhya
Pradesh’s Ujjain district, following which the police arrested the accused duo, an official said on Sunday. The incident occurred on Saturday and two purported videos of it have gone viral on social media.
Talking to reporters, RK Rai, sub divisional officer of police, Mahidpur, said, “The incident happened on Saturday when scrap dealer Abdul Rasheed, a Mahidpur town resident, who has been doing this business here for long, went to Sikli village in Jharda police station area to collect some scrap in his mini truck.”
However, Rasheed was forced to leave the village and also threatened against doing his scrap business in the area. When he left the village, two men intercepted
him at Pipliya Dhuma, manhandled him and forced him to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’. The man somehow got out from there after giving in to their demand, he said.
Jharda police station in-charge Vikram Singh Ivne said an offence was registered against the accused — Kamal Singh (22) and Ishwar Singh (27) — for disturbing communal harmony, and they were arrested. The duo was booked under IPC Sections 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion), 505 (2) (public mischief), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), among others.
In one purported video, the duo was seen throwing scrap from the victim’s 4wheeler and asking him not to enter the village again, while another video shows them threatening and forcing him to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’. It shows them asking him how he dared to enter their village and the victim chanting the slogan as told by the accused.
Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath said similar incidents had earlier occurred in Indore and Dewas. “Has it been happening under a specific agenda. The government is watching everything as a mute spectator. An atmosphere of anarchy is being created in the entire state and the law is being mocked,” he said, demanding a strict action against the accused “disturbing peace” in the state.