'Assaulted friends': Mob storms student’s party, thrashes guests for ‘love jihad’; FIR filed

BAREILLY: Around 25 right-wing activists including a self-proclaimed cattle vigilante, allegedly barged into a backstage day solemnisation of a 20-year-old first-year pistillate nursing pupil astatine a cafe successful Bareilly and thrashed immoderate of her antheral guests, raised ‘love jihad' slogans and created a ruckus aft objecting to the beingness of 2 Muslim students astatine the party.According to the victims, constabulary initially fined the 2 students and a cafe unit subordinate for "breach of peace" portion nary contiguous enactment was taken against those who disrupted the lawsuit and assaulted the guests. Cops took enactment of the "assault and harassment by the right-wing activists" aft a societal media outrage.

Bareilly SP (city) Manush Pareek said, "We've identified those seen attacking wrong the cafe, and an FIR has been registered nether BNS sections 333 (house trespass), 115-2 (voluntarily causing hurt), 352 (intentional insult...),

351 (criminal intimidation) and 191 (rioting). We've sought a reply from the SHO connected wherefore nary enactment was not taken against them." A departmental enquiry has been initiated against the SHO, constabulary said, adding that "claims of emotion jihad were recovered to beryllium untrue".The incidental took spot connected Saturday evening erstwhile the student, a nonmigratory of Budaun and staying successful a section hostel, hosted a tiny gathering with 9 people, including 5 women.

The nursing pupil said the allegations of ‘love jihad' were baseless. "They gate-crashed and assaulted my friends. One of them suffered fractures," she added. A video showing immoderate men thrashing guests astatine the day enactment was besides wide shared online.Meanwhile, Ashish Sharma, ‘gau raksha pramukh' of a right-wing group's Bareilly unit, said Thakur was nary longer portion of their organisation. He besides alleged that members of his radical "were not portion of the assault".