'No one coming to my cafe': Bareilly cafe owner says business hit after mob attacks bday party

BAREILLY: Shailendra Gangwar, the proprietor of Bareilly Cafe successful Uttar Pradesh, says his concern has virtually travel to a halt aft a radical of right-wing activists allegedly barged into a backstage day solemnisation astatine his establishment, assaulted guests and raised slogans accusing those contiguous of “love jihad”.“Since that incident, I person had nary business. People are acrophobic to travel to my cafe,” Gangwar told TOI, adding that the disruption has near him facing fiscal losses and reputational damage.

The incidental took spot connected Saturday evening erstwhile a 20-year-old first-year nursing pupil was celebrating her day astatine the cafe with a tiny radical of friends. According to constabulary and unfortunate accounts, astir 25 men, including a self-proclaimed cattle vigilante, entered the cafe without permission, objected to the beingness of 2 Muslim students astatine the gathering and began attacking immoderate of the antheral guests.Videos wide shared connected societal media amusement men assaulting those contiguous wrong the cafe, portion slogans are heard successful the background. One of the guests sustained fractures during the attack, the pupil said.“The allegations of ‘love jihad’ are wholly baseless,” the nursing student, who is from neighbouring Budaun territory and stays successful a hostel successful Bareilly, said. “They gate-crashed our backstage enactment and started beating my friends.”

Initially, constabulary fined the 2 Muslim students and a cafe unit subordinate for alleged “breach of peace”, drafting disapproval online. Following nationalist outrage connected societal media, the constabulary registered a lawsuit against those accused of carrying retired the assault.Bareilly metropolis superintendent of constabulary Manush Pareek said officers had identified respective individuals seen attacking radical wrong the cafe. An FIR has been registered nether aggregate sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, including location trespass, voluntarily causing hurt, transgression intimidation and rioting.